Hi, I'm a very long-time users of Emacs-Gnus, mostly for doing Mail and recently for reading news.
I have more than one mail account with various server-side filter rules that forward mails between the accounts. So there is some redundancy, where email should be received by multiple accounts. In this setup I recently noticed that mails went missing when retrived via Gnus account. Today I stumbled over more than 5 mails that were forwarded to my cell-phone, but never showed up in Gnus. Doing some 'rgrep' for the mail subjects, I found all the mails in in the correct maildir directory, and in a strangely named Incoming13078phb, however the '.overview' file of the maildir does not list the corresponding mails. So somehow the maildir got corrupted! I'm accessing my mail setup both with Emacs 23.2.1 and 23.1.1 (i.e. two computers sharing a common NFS home). Mail is retrieved via nnmail, and distributed to many folders via nnmail-split. Can anybody shed some light under which circumstances this kind of corruption can occur? Is there anything I can do to automatically detect these problems in the future? Can I somehow regenerate the .overview file? It's a little shocking to suddenly realize that maybe significant amounts of mail have been lost in the past. I'd greately appreciate any help. cheers, David -- GnuPG public key: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40 _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
