[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Jarc) writes: > Pietro Giorgianni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> if i delete the .nnmaildir directory, quit gnus, exit emacs, start >> emacs again, run gnus, it then works (simply restarting gnus doesn't), >> but it's annoying having to loose all information about read, replied >> etc. messages. > > Deleting the .nnmaildir directories while Gnus is running would cause > problems. Exit Gnus, then delete the "nov" and "num" directories in > all of your .nnmaildir directories. (You can keep the "marks" > directories so you don't lose read/replied/etc. information. The > problem is likely to be in "nov" or "num" anyway.) Then start Gnus > again and see if anything still goes wrong.
too late, i already deleted the whole .nnmaildir directories. alas, if i knew, i would have kept the marks directories, but, it went this way. > Also note that deleting the "num" directories will make nnmaildir > reassign article number starting from 1. This can cause problems if > you use the cache or agent, since they identify articles by number. > But if you've already caused damage by deleting the directories while > Gnus was running, then deleting the "num" directories again probably > won't do any more harm. well, after deleting all .nnmaildir dirs, i still got some other messages when restarting gnus. i cannot tell if it's related to the next problem: if new messages arrive while a group is visited, i cannot see them pressing / N on the right summary; they appear as already read, so i can see them by pressing / O, but this is of course a problem. if i close all groups and then launch getmail, everything seems to go fine. my .gnus configuration is quite minimal, and the only reference to nnmaildir is: ,---- | (setq gnus-select-method | '(nnmaildir "localhost" | (directory "~/maildir") | (expire-age never))) `---- should i change anything? thanks
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