From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ‘/ o’ in inbox summary says ‘No old news’, my ticks gone
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:34:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po9svemr.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ygmy3ohgrs9.fsf@gkayaalp.com>
Göktuğ Kayaalp <self@gkayaalp.com> writes:
> On 2017-10-12 02:44 +03, Göktuğ Kayaalp <self@gkayaalp.com> wrote:
>> On 2017-10-12 02:19 +03, Göktuğ Kayaalp <self@gkayaalp.com> wrote:
>>> On 2017-10-11 07:56 +02, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>>> Göktuğ Kayaalp <self@gkayaalp.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> i'm kind-of screwed ATM. I just started Gnus (M-x gnus), and it fetched
>>>>> my new mail online (via mail-sources), but then when I opened my inbox
>>>>> (an nnml folder), my tick marked messages were not listed as such
>>>>> anymore, and ‘/ o’ says ‘No old news’. When I look at the mail folder,
>>>>> the messages are still there, but I can't access them through the
>>>>> summary buffer anymore. I made a recursive copy of my mail folder.
>>>>> What's going on? Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> If you're still in the running session, you might try a few "undo"s, and
>>>> see if that gets you back into a good state.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately no.
>>>
>>>> Otherwise, look at the group parameters for your inbox ("G p"). What
>>>> does is say for the "active" entry? That entry is Gnus' idea of how many
>>>> messages are in the group -- if it's gotten messed up somehow, it might
>>>> believe there are no messages in the group. What does it say?
>>>
>>> G p buffer shows nil. I found that the ~/Mail/active file had this
>>> line:
>>>
>>> inbox 1 1 y
>>>
>>> and fixed it setting the first ‘1‘ to the number of posts in that group,
>>> then I got my emails back in the summary buffer. But it keeps
>>> forgetting my ticks when I fetch new mail. They are absent from the
>>> relevant sexp in the ~/.newsrc.eld file.
>>
>> Additionally, I see that the ‘.overview’ file for ~/Mail/inbox is
>> truncated, and only includes entries for the last dozen-or-so messages.
>> I've tried to regenerate this file with entries for all the messages
>> without success. When I do ‘/ o’ now, it shows the items in that file
>> first, whatever number I enter to the prompt. The second time I hit ‘/
>> o’ and enter some number, that many messages are shown.
>
> It seems that I've solved this with help from an emacs stack exchange
> answer [1], using the command ‘nnml-generate-nov-databases-directory’.
>
> [1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/19359
Glad you got it solved!
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-10 21:17 Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-10-11 5:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-11 23:19 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-10-11 23:44 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-10-11 23:59 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-10-12 10:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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