Re: Mail folders inaccessible

[David Sumbler]

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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