Re: nnmaildir problems after upgrading to emacs 22.1.1

[Paul Jarc]

Pietro Giorgianni <giorgian@gmail.com> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> 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.

You should still do what I described above.  That will ensure that the
damage won't grow any further.

> well,  after deleting  all .nnmaildir  dirs,  i still  got some  other
> messages when  restarting gnus.

It's probably because you deleted them while Gnus was running.  That
can cause damage that will persist to future Gnus sessions.

> my .gnus  configuration is  quite minimal, and  the only  reference to
> nnmaildir is:
>
> ,----
> | (setq gnus-select-method
> |       '(nnmaildir "localhost"
> |                   (directory "~/maildir")
> |                   (expire-age never)))
> `----

That looks ok.


paul