From: Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>
Subject: Re: Weird behavior of nnimap email
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 18:14:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4qtzalrx.fsf@xpediantsolutions.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hdy42l91.fsf@zeus.ece.cmu.edu>
nospam@nospam.com writes:
> Klaus Uhl <news@u-h-l.de> writes:
>
>> nospam@nospam.com writes:
>>
>>> It seems that sometimes gnus does not display all the email in my nnimap
>>> folder. Even when I use "C-u enter" to display all the mails in that group,
>>> I can still see that some mails are missing when comparing the list using
>>> pine.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, for some emails, also gnus does display them in the
>>> summary buffer, when I select, it says that the mail is gone (either expired
>>> or deleted). But again, in pine, it can be displayed without any problem.
>>>
>>> I am not sure what caused this problem. (I tried both gnus-5.10.6 and
>>> ngnus-0.1 and got the same problem.)
>>
>> I had a similar problem wile I moved my mail from nnfolder to
>> nnimap. I had deleted several messages in a nnimap folder but Gnus
>> insisted in showing them anyway.
>>
>> It turned out to be a problem with the Gnus agent. I could resolve the
>> problem by simply deleting the News/agent/nnimap folder so that Gnus
>> was forced to reread the complete contents of my mailboxes from the
>> IMAP server.
>>
>> Maybe such a brute force "hack" resolves your problem too.
>>
>
> You are totally right. After removing that, everything works fine now.
Could either of you explain what you did to get the agent out of sync?
For example, exactly how was mail moved from nnfolder to nnimap?
Also, if this problem re-occurs, I'd appreciate knowing whether
gnus-agent-regenerate-group fixes the problem without having to delete
the agent folder.
Kevin
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2004-02-06 16:04 ` Klaus Uhl
2004-02-06 17:03 ` nospam
2004-02-09 23:14 ` Kevin Greiner [this message]
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