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Re: nnmaildir problems after upgrading to emacs 22.1.1
From: |
Paul Jarc |
Subject: |
Re: nnmaildir problems after upgrading to emacs 22.1.1 |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:40:43 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
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