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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: regenerating agent overview
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:36:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluy8ee7m95.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yccy8eeagqp.fsf@monkeypuzzle.wc.cray.com> (Ted Stern's message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:06:54 -0800")

Ted Stern <stern+gnus@cray.com> writes:

> Sometimes, in some of my nnimap groups, I delete messages via my web email
> access from home.
>
> This causes the agent overview, stored in
> ~/News/agent/nnimap/<hostname>/INBOX/.overview, to go out of sync with the
> actual database.
>
> If I attempt to view one of the zombie messages, Gnus complains that the
> message is missing from the server.
>
> One way to fix this is to exit the group, delete the .overview file, and
> re-enter the group.
>
> But there should be an easier way -- can't I simply regenerate the agent
> overview from the *Summary* buffer?

Me too!

Further, perhaps Gnus could fix .overview when it complains that the
article is missing from the server, so that in any case the error only
happen once.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-27 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-27 18:06 Ted Stern
2005-01-27 18:36 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2005-01-27 19:41 ` Steven E. Harris

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