From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59661 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: regenerating agent overview Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:36:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106851096 20925 80.91.229.6 (27 Jan 2005 18:38:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:38:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8201@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 27 19:38:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CuEWv-0002ez-00 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:38:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CuEW9-000808-00; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:37:21 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CuEW2-000802-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:37:14 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CuEVs-0002xU-IC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:37:04 -0600 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CuEVm-0003wW-00 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:36:58 +0100 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se [217.215.27.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.2/8.13.2/Debian-1) with ESMTP id j0RIaMwt004957 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:36:23 +0100 Original-To: Ted Stern OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt X-Hashcash: 1:21:050127:ding@gnus.org::TzI9y68xIsz9dJjL:NLS X-Hashcash: 1:21:050127:stern@cray.com::HgBNFiKjDcd7XheB:SUF2 In-Reply-To: (Ted Stern's message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:06:54 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/680/Mon Jan 24 00:16:15 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59661 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59661 Ted Stern 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//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.