Hey all

I'm having a very strange problem with my Gnus. I'm running NoGnus 0.9
with all my mail stored in nnml format, and with Gnus spooling my mail
from my Maildir, to which mail is delivered with fetchmail and a local
postfix server.

Occasionally I will see that I have received mail in one of my groups,
and I go to read it, and it isn't there. If I delve down into the
filesystem, I cannot find any sign of the e-mail in the nnml directory,
so its not like its hidden, its really not even there, even though Gnus
thought it was.

If I then open webmail to another account to which all my e-mail is
automatically forwarded (server side), I can see the e-mail that was
supposed to be in that particular group. So its not like Gnus is
randomly thinking I have new e-mail when I don't. I actually did have a
new e-mail, but when I go to view it, it wasn't there.

The ONLY thing I can think of is that maybe fetchmail/postfix is still
in the middle of delivering to my Maildir when Gnus tries to suck it in
to its backend, and for some reason the e-mail gets lost there.

In addition to my previous post, it just happened again where my
nnml+brett:Inbox showed in the Group buffer that there were 3 new
messages, but in the summary buffer, only two messages showed up. I've
looked in my fetchmail log and there's no error with it retrieving and
delivering the mail locally, and there's no errors in the postfix log
either - it says it delivered the e-mails succesfully. However in the
Messages buffer, the following is displayed:

nnml: Reading incoming mail from maildir... [2 times]
Wrote /home/brett/.mairix/Inbox/4816
nnml: Reading incoming mail (1 new)...done
Matched 82 messages
Retrieving newsgroup: nnmairix+nnmairix:mairix...

Brett Randall hillsong.com> writes:

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Well, Gnus is putting the mail there, not Mairix, so I'd say that's a
Gnus issue.

On Sep 11, 5:25 pm, David wrote:

Yeah, I realised that as I was falling asleep last night pondering the
issue :)

I use nnmail-split-methods to just divide up mail based on To/From in
my folders - no fancy splitting or anything. I don't think that's
related though as the mail that I "lose" into the nnmairix backend is
no different than any other e-mail that DID get through to the proper
group. i.e. yesterday two e-mails came from the same person. One went
into the correct group, the other went into the nnmairix backend.
Doesn't seem to be any particular reason (that I can see) that that
would happen.

Thanks for your help

Brett.

Thanks, I've turned it off globally, turned it on on my "brett" nnml
directory, and left it off on the "mairix" directory. nnmairix still
seems to work with it off, so I might leave it like that for the time
being and see if I lose any more mail.

Thanks for your help!

Brett.