Re: nnimap and sticky cache

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Wed Mar 25 2009, David Engster <deng-AT-randomsample.de> wrote:

> David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>> on Tue Mar 24 2009, Tassilo Horn <tassilo-AT-member.fsf.org> wrote:
>>
>>> David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>>> Old articles that have since been deleted through other clients still
>>>> show up in the summary (bad) but sometimes "turn black" (show up as
>>>> deleted) when I try to read them (also bad).  The latest problem is
>>>> that I've added 'Message-ID to gnus-extra-headers, but `/-x
>>>> Message-ID<RET>xxxxx' turns up nothing, even though I have a message
>>>> containing xxxxx in its Message-ID header.  I've had this sort of
>>>> problem for years!
>>>
>>> Do you use the agent for you imap server?  
>>
>> Yup.  But even if I turn the agent off I still see this problem.
>
> As Tassilo already said, turn the agent off and delete the agent files
> still in ~/News/agent. Next, you could try to set the server variable
> nnimap-nov-is-evil for your nnimap server definition and also delete all
> overview files for the server (usually
> ~/News/overview/nnimap/SERVER). (I think all of this is safe to do, but
> better keep a backup when deleting stuff from ~/News).

OK, did all that.  Unfortunately nothing I do seems to make it possible
for Gnus to limit to a particular regexp in the Message-Id field.  What
am I missing?

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Dave Abrahams
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