Re: Agent .overview files not getting truncated (was Re: memory usage results (ack!))

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

> Well, first of in debugging it I've found the following things:
>
> 1) it only appears if there is in fact new mail in the folder
>    (otherwise gnus-agent-braid-nov doesn't even get called).
>
> 2) the problem comes from the fact that the if statement which decides
>    whether to insert the contents of the old .overview file into the
>    nntp buffer bases it's decision on the last article number in
>    the list of articles and the .overview file.  If the list of
>    articles contains anything newer, then the *entire* contents of the
>    .overview file is inserted.  I think this is where the duplication
>    is going on.

Thank you for analysis. I guess you've customized
gnus-fetch-old-headers.  Anyway, I fixed the problem.

To fix the .overview files, you can remove all these files, then run
M-x gnus-agent-regenerate.

ShengHuo