Re: ‘/ o’ in inbox summary says ‘No old news’, my ticks gone

[Göktuğ Kayaalp]

On 2017-10-11 07:56 +02, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Göktuğ Kayaalp <self@gkayaalp.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i'm kind-of screwed ATM.  I just started Gnus (M-x gnus), and it fetched
>> my new mail online (via mail-sources), but then when I opened my inbox
>> (an nnml folder), my tick marked messages were not listed as such
>> anymore, and ‘/ o’ says ‘No old news’.  When I look at the mail folder,
>> the messages are still there, but I can't access them through the
>> summary buffer anymore.  I made a recursive copy of my mail folder.
>> What's going on?  Thanks in advance.
>
> If you're still in the running session, you might try a few "undo"s, and
> see if that gets you back into a good state.

Unfortunately no.

> Otherwise, look at the group parameters for your inbox ("G p"). What
> does is say for the "active" entry? That entry is Gnus' idea of how many
> messages are in the group -- if it's gotten messed up somehow, it might
> believe there are no messages in the group. What does it say?

G p buffer shows nil.  I found that the ~/Mail/active file had this
line:

  inbox 1 1 y

and fixed it setting the first ‘1‘ to the number of posts in that group,
then I got my emails back in the summary buffer.  But it keeps
forgetting my ticks when I fetch new mail.  They are absent from the
relevant sexp in the ~/.newsrc.eld file.

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