Re: Mail continually marked as unread

[Ted Zlatanov]

On 13 Jul 2006, phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk wrote:

>>>>>> "TZ" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
> TZ> On 11 Jul 2006, phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk wrote:
>
>>> I'm having strange problems with my email. For some reason,
>>> occasionally some of my mail always appears to be unread when I
>>> start gnus, even though I have read it a number of times, or done
>>> catch up on the group.
>>>
>>> I can't see anything odd about the messages, nor about their file
>>> on disk.
>>>
>>> Has anyone got any suggestions?
>
> TZ> Look in your newsrc for that group before starting Gnus, and
> TZ> after catching up and hitting 's' to save the newsrc.  You may
> TZ> have an invalid range for some reason.
>
>
>
> Okay, but what am I looking for? 

Pick a group that's problematic.  Grep your newsrc.eld for the group
name before and after you enter it.  You're looking for discrepancy
between the data in the newsrc and what's on the server.  In the worst
case, you can just delete the group from the newsrc (or just C-k in
Gnus) and then re-add it, but you'll lose state data (how much depends
on the group, e.g. nnimap backends are not too affected while nntp
backends are).  Also the problem may be elsewhere.

I'm not an expert in article ranges, but will at least try to help you
get enough information so this bug can be found and fixed, if
possible.  You can follow up directly to the ding mailing list if you
want knowledgeable people to look at your report directly.  I think
fewer follow the gnu.emacs.gnus newsgroup.

Ted