Re: Make gnus-agent default to t?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
> On Sat, 25 May 2002, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> What about making `gnus-agent' default to t?  It shouldn't do
>> anything bad, I think.  I've been setting it to t for ages without
>> actually using the agent for reading offline.  If something bad
>> happens, maybe that should be fixed instead.
>
> I reported the following bad behaviour of the current agent which
> prevents me from using oort gnus:
>
> If you 'B Del' an article it shows up later in the summary. Wes
> Hardaker did proposed to regularaly run gnus-agent-expire which is
> IMNSHO mere bandaid. I do consider this a real bug which is AFAIK not
> fixed and should prevent you from setting gnus-agent to t per default.

Yes, this has bugged me for a while as well. (To workaround the
problem I have been removing the .overview file in the Agent directory
for the group, as it is rebuilt if missing).

I tried to fix it in Oort, but if someone who understands
`gnus-agent-expire' would take a look at it to see if it is correct,
it would be good.  If someone has problems with Agent Expiry or B DEL
now, please speak up.

I'll fix the doc later, unless someone discoveres problems that cannot
easily be fixed and we'll have to revert to the old behaviour.