Re: gnus: 'active' file for nnml:* getting out of sync

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Mar 16 2010, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> I have noticed with a relatively recent trunk copy that if I compress
> nnml folders with 'G z' of if I compact the entire nnml server in the
> server buffer, by typing '^', then close and reopen Gnus a few times,
> then new messages are marked as already 'old' ('O' marker) even if they
> just arrived in the particular nnml folder.

Seems like a bug in the nnml compaction feature.  Didier?

> After a bit of digging around I found that '~/Mail/active' does not
> match what nnml thinks is inside the folder.  If there any way to force
> an update of the nnml active file to match the in-memory state of the
> nnml folder?

There are `nnml-generate-nov-databases' and
`nnml-generate-nov-databases-directory'.

,----[ (info "(gnus)Mail Spool") ]
|    If your `nnml' groups and NOV files get totally out of whack, you
| can do a complete update by typing `M-x nnml-generate-nov-databases'.
| This command will trawl through the entire `nnml' hierarchy, looking at
| each and every article, so it might take a while to complete.  A better
| interface to this functionality can be found in the server buffer
| (*note Server Commands::).
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Bye, Reiner.
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