Re: nnmaildir problems after upgrading to emacs 22.1.1

[Pietro Giorgianni]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Pietro Giorgianni <giorgian@gmail.com> 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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