Re: Agent and large counts and general offline usage

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> 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 ;))
>

I spoke too soon. Plugged two of my 3 imap secondaries now show the same
wrong number at all times.
,----
| 
|   (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "riley"
|                 (nnir-search-engine imap) (nnimap-address
|                 "imap.gmail.com") ))
|    
|    (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "shamrockpub"
|                 (nnir-search-engine imap) (nnimap-address
|                 "imap.gmail.com") ))
|    
|    (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "friends"
|                 (nnir-search-engine imap) (nnimap-address
|                 "imap.gmail.com") ))
`----

The second two seem horribly bound :-

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