Re: How to 'clean up' a EXMH database.

Tom Lane wrote:
> reg <at> dwf.com writes:
> > OK, something has happened to my EXMH.
> > Every time I delete a message, I get the little circular icon saying that 
> > something is
> > going on, and a list of files being deleted.  This never clears.
> 
> There isn't much of a "database" in there.  I'd bet on something being
> screwy in ~/Mail/.exmhcontext, or possibly in the relevant per-folder
> mh_sequences file.  I've more than once noticed problems from
> per-folder state somehow getting into the global .exmhcontext file.
> Anyway, they're just text files, eyeball them and remove anything that
> seems bogus.

Yes, occasionaly stuff gets screwed & its just a case of removing
a few dot files, eg

cd ~/mail ; find . -name \.\* | xargs echo Might need to rm some of these

Of course if you do remove a few, the state table memory fails, ie
it may forget which mails youve read & which are new, so the blue
colour on some new mails may dissapear (though will return on new
mails after).

Exmh is `just' a graphic front end to a number of back end CLI NMH
commands, that may run asynchronously, & something may get inconsistent.
Its not a single centralised monolithic application.

Cheers,
Julian