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10.7.4: Reading Mail

• Q4.1 What does the message ``Buffer has changed on disk'' mean in a mail group?

  Your filter program should not deliver mail directly to your folders, instead it should put the mail into spool files. Gnus will then move the mail safely from the spool files into the folders. This will eliminate the problem. Look it up in the manual, in the section entitled ``Mail & Procmail''.

• Q4.2 How do you make articles un-expirable?

  I am using nnml to read news and have used gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups to automagically expire articles in some groups (Gnus being one of them). Sometimes there are interesting articles in these groups that I want to keep. Is there any way of explicitly marking an article as un-expirable - that is mark it as read but not expirable?

  Use u, !, d or M-u in the summary buffer. You just remove the E mark by setting some other mark. It's not necessary to tick the articles.

• Q4.3 How do I delete bogus nnml: groups?

  My problem is that I have various mail (nnml) groups generated while experimenting with Gnus. How do I remove them now? Setting the level to 9 does not help. Also gnus-group-check-bogus-groups does not recognize them.

  Removing mail groups is tricky at the moment. (It's on the to-do list, though.) You basically have to kill the groups in Gnus, shut down Gnus, edit the active file to exclude these groups, and probably remove the nnml directories that contained these groups as well. Then start Gnus back up again.

• Q4.4 What happened to my new mail groups?

  I got new mail, but I have never seen the groups they should have been placed in.

  They are probably there, but as zombies. Press A z to list zombie groups, and then subscribe to the groups you want with u. This is all documented quite nicely in the user's manual.

• Q4.5 Not scoring mail groups

  How do you totally turn off scoring in mail groups?

  Use an nnbabyl:all.SCORE (or nnmh, or nnml, or whatever) file containing:

  ((adapt ignore)
   (local (gnus-use-scoring nil))
   (exclude-files "all.SCORE"))
  

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