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Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Apparently the agent does not handle the case right when does get the
> same article several times:
> 
> The first time I experienced this when I applied Simon's patch to
> include readedness into the category predicates: As soon as I included
> some read articles into the category it came up with corrupted
> overview files.
> 
> Today I had the same with a standard setup. I investigated some more
> and found, that one article was 16 times included in
> News/agent/nnimap/unnamed/INBOX/.overview.

Yes, I've been seeing this too.  However, it should not cause any
problems in itself (other than wasting space).  I'm working on this
tonight.

> It also was 16 time in .agentview, but .agentview was not sorted,
> .overview was. This apparently leads to an 'unexpected end of buffer
> *Gnus agent overview*'.

Ouch, this might explain the problem with re-fetching articles in the
first place.  Thanks for spotting that.