Re: Broken Maildir

[Simon Brown <simon@cliffestones.demon.co.uk>]

At Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:44:43 +0200,
David Maus wrote:
> >Something seems to have gone wrong with one of my maildir
> >folders. when I enter it I get the following message:
> >mapcar: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
> 
> >The contents shown is wrong and I can't access any messages.
> 
> >I've used another program to empty the dir and deleted .elmo/cache
> >folder but I still can't get in.
> 
> >Any suggestions?
> 
> I think removing WL's message database for this folder might help: It
> is located in ~/.elmo/maildir/ in a directory that reflects the path
> to the maildir folder.  E.g. here the directory
> 
> "~/.elmo/maildir/ shome sdmaus smail sarchive"
> 
> contains the message database for the maildir located in
> /home/dmaus/mail/archive.

That did the trick, thanks.

Simon