restarting from scratch [was: nnmaildir problems after upgrading to emacs 22.1.1]

[Pietro Giorgianni]

Pietro Giorgianni <giorgian@gmail.com> writes:
> the inbox folder is just a  maildir folder as all other ones; the only
> special thing i can  think of is the fact that i  often move or delete
> messages from  there, so that the  apparent number of  messages is far
> bigger than the real one. i could move all the messages to a temporary
> folder and  then back again, to  change the article numbers,  but in a
> couple of days they would be messed again anyway.

i tried the  above. i was not  able to move or delete  a message, that
is: i deleted it, but it was still there.

i closed gnus, and checked the  inbox maildir (with mutt and also with
find ~/maildir/inbox): it was empty.

i restarted gnus: the message was there.

i closed gnus, deleted .nov  and .num, restarted gnus. the message was
there.

so  i  unsubscribed inbox,  killed  inbox,  closed  gnus and  manually
deleted inbox.

i then restarted gnus, and inbox was gone.

then  i created  inbox  and the  subdirs  cur new  tmp, started  gnus,
pressed  F to find  the inbox  group, but  it didn't  find it  (it had
always worked for new groups before).


now i'm close to surrender.


the gnus info manual says that  one can copy an entire maildir tree to
another computer, and magically use that maildir tree in a new gnus.


of course, i have just one computer, so i'm tempted to delete ~/.newsrc*
and ~/News, try again, and if  it still doesn't work, pass to mutt and
try again gnus in a year or two.


can anybody save me? thanks

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