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From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Can't open offline nnimap groups
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:07:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5x1tvuu.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mz1xy4mi.fsf@bang.priv.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Wed\, 28 Mar 2007 13\:44\:21 +0200")

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>:
>
>> Other files might be destroyed.. :)
>
> I copied .newsrc and .newsrc.eld.  I don't know what other files might
> be affected.
>
>>> The active file is not recreated, ie. agent.lib has no active file.
>
>> How about removing the entire agent.lib directory?
>
> The same:
>
> Reading active file from doohan via nnimap...
> Opening nnimap server on doohan...done
> Cannot read partial active file from nnimap server.
>
> during startup.

Try and remove the entire agent directory (~/News/agent), and
re-agentize the servers you want.  That is what I typically did when
something went wrong.  (But that has happened for me in recent years.)



  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-28 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-28  7:12 Steinar Bang
2007-03-28  7:18 ` Steinar Bang
2007-03-28  7:56   ` Simon Josefsson
2007-03-28  9:20     ` Steinar Bang
2007-03-28 10:34       ` Simon Josefsson
2007-03-28 11:44         ` Steinar Bang
2007-03-28 12:07           ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2007-03-28 17:38             ` Steinar Bang
2007-03-28 19:14               ` Dave Goldberg
2007-03-29  8:50                 ` Steinar Bang
2007-03-29 10:49                   ` Simon Josefsson
2007-03-29 18:36                     ` Steinar Bang

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