Re: gnus don't show all my (old) articles

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Aug 09 2004, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:

> I got a directory Mail/foo with 5 messages in it. But when I go to this
> group, I only see 2 messages:
>
> j nnml:foo <return> <return>
>
> Where are the three first? How can I regenerate them?

,----[ (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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You may also try `M-: nnml-generate-nov-databases-1 ~/Mail/foo RET',
which should be much faster, if only one group is out of whack.

,----[ C-h f nnml-generate-nov-databases-1 RET ]
| nnml-generate-nov-databases-1 is an interactive compiled Lisp
| function in `nnml'.
| (nnml-generate-nov-databases-1 DIR &optional SEEN NO-ACTIVE)
| 
| Regenerate the NOV database in DIR.
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Bye, Reiner.
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