From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>
To: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Agent and large counts and general offline usage
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:43:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6gvcz894tu.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bp11gdko.fsf@gmail.com> (Antoine Levitt's message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:52:39 +0100")
Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
> 24/03/11 01:25, Richard Riley
>> (sorry if this is a re-mail - a combo of agent and blocked smtp server
>> port combined with exim4 inscrutability causing havoc here..)
>>
>> Just using the agent for the first time abroad in an attempt to cut
>> online charges that result from the usb mobile network "roaming" cash
>> cow.
>>
>> Plugged, adding a few nntp groups to the agent "default" category and
>> then fetching data using Js, I then go unplugged. So far so good. I can
>> read the fetched articles.
>>
>> If I quit Gnus then restart unplugged the article counts are massive e.g
>> 2390233 for one group that I had already caught up with.
>>
>> If I go "plugged" then the count stays at that high number.
>>
>> Is there a remedy?
>
> I had the same issue a few weeks ago, it stopped with one of the
> updates. I believe it was
>
> gnus-sum.el (gnus-propagate-marks): Change default back to nil
> again, since most backends do not usefully have server-side marks.
>
Setting this to "nil" solved the problem. thanks. That said I am sure I
set it for a reason. Now what I wonder ;))
Interestingly I parse the somewhat programmer orientated docstring the
exact other way.
,----
| Documentation:
| If non-nil, Gnus will store and retrieve marks from the backends.
| This means that marks will be stored both in .newsrc.eld and in
| the backend, and will slow operation down somewhat.
`----
This sounds to me like the marks are saved properly to .newsrc.eld, if
set to t, so offline counts should work. Yet its the other way
around. That said I have no idea what "propagating marks to a backend"
means in the context of Gnus..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-24 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-24 0:25 Richard Riley
2011-03-24 7:09 ` Steinar Bang
2011-03-24 7:52 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-03-24 10:43 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2011-03-24 12:34 ` Richard Riley
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