From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9335 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pietro Giorgianni Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: nnmaildir problems after upgrading to emacs 22.1.1 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:14:49 +0200 Message-ID: <877ip28tna.fsf@giorgian.widge.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1789661820==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184454925 18905 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2007 23:15:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:15:25 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 15 01:15:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I9qpf-0003KX-94 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:15:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I9qpe-0000Ku-L2 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I9qpb-0000Hz-W3 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I9qpa-0000Fg-IR for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:15:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I9qpa-0000Fd-Ca for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I9qpZ-0004jM-VG for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I9qpR-00028T-DB for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:15:09 +0200 Original-Received: from host42-101-dynamic.17-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it ([87.17.101.42]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:15:09 +0200 Original-Received: from giorgian by host42-101-dynamic.17-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:15:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 66 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host42-101-dynamic.17-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s2rKwuJF/wdcoybxQ4OCll/Q7tk= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9335 Archived-At: --===============1789661820== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > Pietro Giorgianni wrote: >> if i delete the .nnmaildir directory, quit gnus, exit emacs, start >> emacs again, run gnus, it then works (simply restarting gnus doesn't), >> but it's annoying having to loose all information about read, replied >> etc. messages. > > Deleting the .nnmaildir directories while Gnus is running would cause > problems. Exit Gnus, then delete the "nov" and "num" directories in > all of your .nnmaildir directories. (You can keep the "marks" > directories so you don't lose read/replied/etc. information. The > problem is likely to be in "nov" or "num" anyway.) Then start Gnus > again and see if anything still goes wrong. too late, i already deleted the whole .nnmaildir directories. alas, if i knew, i would have kept the marks directories, but, it went this way. > Also note that deleting the "num" directories will make nnmaildir > reassign article number starting from 1. This can cause problems if > you use the cache or agent, since they identify articles by number. > But if you've already caused damage by deleting the directories while > Gnus was running, then deleting the "num" directories again probably > won't do any more harm. well, after deleting all .nnmaildir dirs, i still got some other messages when restarting gnus. i cannot tell if it's related to the next problem: if new messages arrive while a group is visited, i cannot see them pressing / N on the right summary; they appear as already read, so i can see them by pressing / O, but this is of course a problem. if i close all groups and then launch getmail, everything seems to go fine. my .gnus configuration is quite minimal, and the only reference to nnmaildir is: ,---- | (setq gnus-select-method | '(nnmaildir "localhost" | (directory "~/maildir") | (expire-age never))) `---- should i change anything? thanks --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGmVjyUUzd1irJPYYRAqY2AKCOXlElIcqrnTokyC+Bmncd2XGp/QCgyWiI h7qv+vuiG7xd1vkx2vwIlkA= =L96L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- --===============1789661820== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english --===============1789661820==--