mail reading and moving groups

mail reading and moving groups

[Greg Trafton]

Hi, All.  I use gnus to read my mail; I sort into different mail
groups.  in january I moved ("G r") groups like "inbox" into
"inbox_2002"; the problem is that now when I receive something into
"inbox" it doesn't show it as new, but marks it as "O", help!  how do
I fix this to make sure I don't have to force read all my mail groups
to see where I have mail?

thanks!
greg

Re: mail reading and moving groups

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Greg Trafton <trafton@itd.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> Hi, All.  I use gnus to read my mail; I sort into different mail
> groups.  in january I moved ("G r") groups like "inbox" into
> "inbox_2002"; the problem is that now when I receive something into
> "inbox" it doesn't show it as new, but marks it as "O", help!  

Hm.  That sounds like a bug in the `G r' command.  However, you can
use the `M-c' command on the group to make Gnus clear out the list of
read and marked articles.

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: mail reading and moving groups

[Greg Trafton]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Greg Trafton <trafton@itd.nrl.navy.mil> writes:
>
>> Hi, All.  I use gnus to read my mail; I sort into different mail
>> groups.  in january I moved ("G r") groups like "inbox" into
>> "inbox_2002"; the problem is that now when I receive something into
>> "inbox" it doesn't show it as new, but marks it as "O", help!  
>
> Hm.  That sounds like a bug in the `G r' command.  However, you can
> use the `M-c' command on the group to make Gnus clear out the list of
> read and marked articles.

Hmmm...  I did this and it worked as expected (I had to go in and mark
all the mail as read).  However, new mail still comes in as "O." to
groups like "inbox"

Any other suggestions?

thanks!
greg

Re: mail reading and moving groups

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Greg Trafton <trafton@itd.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> Hmmm...  I did this and it worked as expected (I had to go in and mark
> all the mail as read).  However, new mail still comes in as "O." to
> groups like "inbox"

What backend are these groups from?

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: mail reading and moving groups

[Greg Trafton]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Greg Trafton <trafton@itd.nrl.navy.mil> writes:
>
>> Hmmm...  I did this and it worked as expected (I had to go in and mark
>> all the mail as read).  However, new mail still comes in as "O." to
>> groups like "inbox"
>
> What backend are these groups from?

nnml:

thanks,
greg

Re: mail reading and moving groups

[Greg Trafton]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Greg Trafton <trafton@itd.nrl.navy.mil> writes:
>
>>> What backend are these groups from?
>>
>> nnml:
>
> It's possible that the new marks code keeps the marks around.  Is
> there a .marks file in the directory for this group?

Yes!

here it is:

((tick 1 (8 . 11) 17 19 34 36 (38 . 43) (45 . 46) 54 58) (read (1 . 327)) (reply 18 46 49 51) (expire (27 . 28) (30 . 33) 47))

and everything seems to be OK except for the 327 number; that was the
number of a * marked article that didn't seem to get moved correctly
(even after my mucking with it a bit).

what's the best way to fix this, change 327 to the number of mails in
the group (I supposed I could try this myself, but a similar attempt
yesterday (with "G E") didn't seem to work, or, rather, only worked
briefly).

thanks!
greg

Re: mail reading and moving groups

[Kai Großjohann]

Greg Trafton <trafton@itd.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> and everything seems to be OK except for the 327 number; that was the
> number of a * marked article that didn't seem to get moved correctly
> (even after my mucking with it a bit).

* marked means they are in the cache, ~/News/cache.

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