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From: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Agent and large counts and general offline usage
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:52:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp11gdko.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i0ipv9s6tl.fsf@news.eternal-september.org>

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.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-24  7:52 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 [this message]
2011-03-24 10:43   ` Richard Riley
2011-03-24 12:34     ` Richard Riley

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