Re: auto-subscribe -> IMAP woes

[Kester Clegg <kester@RemoveThisBit.cs.york.ac.uk>]

Kester Clegg <kester@RemoveThisBit.cs.york.ac.uk> writes:

> I just rebooted my machine, fired up emacs with gnus and bam!
> Half-a-dozen files were created in my home directory (INBOX.blah,
> INBOX.blah1, etc). Without thinking (yep), I deleted these thinking
> the groups should be kept on the imap server.

I seem to have screwed up my imap groups after all this and lost lots of
mail.  Can anyone help me with 2 questions:

1 Why is gnus suddenly creating all my imap groups locally, instead of
on the server?

2 My old subscriptions on the imap server vanished too.  Now, the group
parameters seem not to match the 'new' groups that are beginning to
appear on the imap server?  In particular, I now get the error message
below, even when that group is then subscribed.  What should I do?

nnimap: Group INBOX.Work.dept is not uidvalid.  Continue? (yes or no) 



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