From: David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Mail folders inaccessible
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:59:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zmodnzj9.fsf@ceres.staly.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3slu6rwcc.fsf@ceres.staly.plus.com>
David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:
> I was having a problem with one of my mail-folders. In an experiment
> to see if I could solve this, I ran gnus-cache-generate-nov-databases
> and gnus-cache-generate-active
>
> Now whenever I try to enter any of my main mail-groups, I get a
> message such as "Couldn't activate group nnfolder:inbox: No such
> group: inbox".
>
> Yet if I list the files in ~/Mail/ they still seem to be intact - e.g.
>
> ll Mail/inbox*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 david david 386834 Nov 8 23:46 Mail/inbox
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 david david 152 Nov 8 23:46 Mail/inbox.mrk
> -rw------- 1 david david 20015 Nov 8 23:47 Mail/inbox.nov
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 david david 392646 Nov 8 23:45 Mail/inbox~
>
> How can I get things working properly again?
OK - the problem seems to be gradually resolving itself: as each
folder receives a new mail (according to Procmail rules), it becomes
accessible from Gnus again, with all the contents marked as unread.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-09 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-09 9:42 David Sumbler
2005-11-09 23:59 ` David Sumbler [this message]
2005-11-10 8:26 ` Reiner Steib
2005-11-10 9:29 ` David Sumbler
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