Messages mixed up

Messages mixed up

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

I switched to No Gnus a few days ago, and I’ve just hit this problem:
in my nnimap inbox, I see a message from John Smith in the summary
buffer, but hitting RET on that message would show me a message by Foo
Bar, whose header clearly starts with “From: Foo Bar”.

I tried removing the agent, just in case, but that didn’t solve the
problem.  I suppose my .newsrc.eld got desperately broken somehow
(something I had never experienced with Gnus in years.)

How can I fix or work around the problem?  How can it be debugged?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: Messages mixed up

[Ludovic Courtès]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I switched to No Gnus a few days ago, and I’ve just hit this problem:
> in my nnimap inbox, I see a message from John Smith in the summary
> buffer, but hitting RET on that message would show me a message by Foo
> Bar, whose header clearly starts with “From: Foo Bar”.

Oh and hitting RET on the following message shows what looks like the
contents of a summary buffer, instead of an actual message...

Ludo’.

Re: Messages mixed up

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès):

> Oh and hitting RET on the following message shows what looks like the
> contents of a summary buffer, instead of an actual message...

Ah, that's similar to what I'm describing in this article (see quoted
stuff about agent and NOV)?
 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73344
 nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73344

What kind of agent settings do you have?  Can you reproduce it at will?

Re: Messages mixed up

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès):
>
>> Oh and hitting RET on the following message shows what looks like the
>> contents of a summary buffer, instead of an actual message...
>
> Ah, that's similar to what I'm describing in this article (see quoted
> stuff about agent and NOV)?
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73344
>  nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73344

Yes.

> What kind of agent settings do you have?

Like you, I have:

  (add-hook 'gnus-select-article-hook
            'gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article)

> Can you reproduce it at will?

Well, the cached version of the article contained the NOV data, so each
time I would select it, it would show me the NOV data.  But I’ve removed
the cached article, and it now works fine.  I’m not sure how to
reproduce the erroneous caching, though.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: Messages mixed up

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès):

> Well, the cached version of the article contained the NOV data, so
> each time I would select it, it would show me the NOV data.  But I’ve
> removed the cached article, and it now works fine.  I’m not sure how
> to reproduce the erroneous caching, though.

Ah.  The same thing I've experienced.

Would be nice if this could be reproduced in a predictable manner.

Re: Messages mixed up

[Julien Danjou]

On Tue, Nov 23 2010, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> How can I fix or work around the problem?  How can it be debugged?

Empty the cache in ~/News/ maybe?

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Julien Danjou
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Re: Messages mixed up

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 23 2010, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> How can I fix or work around the problem?  How can it be debugged?
>
> Empty the cache in ~/News/ maybe?

strace showed that the wrong message contents were taken from the
agent’s cache, even though that group was de-agentized.  Removing the
two offending files from the ~/News/agent/nnimap/... solved the problem.

Thanks,
Ludo’.