Re: Mail folders inaccessible

[Reiner Steib]

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")
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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