GNU bug report logs - #34990
"Can’t mark negative article numbers": why and how to avoid this error?

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 06:42:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 5.13

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34990 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34990: "Can’t mark negative article numbers": why and how to avoid this error?
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:12:07 +0200

Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org> writes:

> from time to time, trying to mark articles with "!", I get this error:
> "Can’t mark negative article numbers" and the article is not marked.
>
> My config is here: https://github.com/bzg/dotemacs/blob/master/emacs.el
>
> I'm using Gnus over a local dovecot-powered IMAP, sync'ed with mbsync.

When referring articles by Message-ID and the like, Gnus doesn't know
what the article numbers are, so they can't be marked.

I've now changed the warning to:

"Gnus doesn't know the article number; can't mark"

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