* Mail folders inaccessible
@ 2005-11-09 9:42 David Sumbler
2005-11-09 23:59 ` David Sumbler
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From: David Sumbler @ 2005-11-09 9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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?
David
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* Re: Mail folders inaccessible
2005-11-09 9:42 Mail folders inaccessible David Sumbler
@ 2005-11-09 23:59 ` David Sumbler
2005-11-10 8:26 ` Reiner Steib
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From: David Sumbler @ 2005-11-09 23:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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* Re: Mail folders inaccessible
2005-11-09 23:59 ` David Sumbler
@ 2005-11-10 8:26 ` Reiner Steib
2005-11-10 9:29 ` David Sumbler
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2005-11-10 8:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Thu, Nov 10 2005, David Sumbler wrote:
> 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.
Does procmail deliver directly into you Gnus nnfolder files? If so,
don't do that, use `directory' in your `mail-sources' instead:
,----[ (info "(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers") ]
| `directory'
| Get mail from several files in a directory. This is typically used
| when you have procmail split the incoming mail into several files.
| That is, there is a one-to-one correspondence between files in that
| directory and groups, so that mail from the file `foo.bar.spool'
| will be put in the group `foo.bar'. (You can change the suffix to
| be used instead of `.spool'.) [...]
|
| An example directory mail source:
|
| (directory :path "/home/user-name/procmail-dir/"
| :suffix ".prcml")
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* Re: Mail folders inaccessible
2005-11-10 8:26 ` Reiner Steib
@ 2005-11-10 9:29 ` David Sumbler
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From: David Sumbler @ 2005-11-10 9:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 10 2005, David Sumbler wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Does procmail deliver directly into you Gnus nnfolder files?
No
> If so, don't do that, use `directory' in your `mail-sources'
> instead:
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers") ]
> | `directory'
> | Get mail from several files in a directory. This is typically used
> | when you have procmail split the incoming mail into several files.
> | That is, there is a one-to-one correspondence between files in that
> | directory and groups, so that mail from the file `foo.bar.spool'
> | will be put in the group `foo.bar'. (You can change the suffix to
> | be used instead of `.spool'.) [...]
> |
> | An example directory mail source:
> |
> | (directory :path "/home/user-name/procmail-dir/"
> | :suffix ".prcml")
> `----
I use
(setq mail-sources '((directory :path "/home/david/Mail_folders/" :suffix ".prcml")))
David
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