Missing articles when agentized

Missing articles when agentized

[Nevin Kapur]

I've entered all my (remote) servers into the Agent.  I've noticed
that now Gnus does not show all the articles present in groups.  In a
particular (nnimap) group, when the server is agentized, entering the
group with C-u RET shows 6 articles.  When I remove the server from
the Agent, then with the same keystroke I see 25 articles.  I've
verified with another IMAP client that the latter is the truth.

This is totally reproducible for me.

-Nevin

Re: Missing articles when agentized

[Kevin Greiner]

Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:

> I've entered all my (remote) servers into the Agent.  I've noticed
> that now Gnus does not show all the articles present in groups.  In a
> particular (nnimap) group, when the server is agentized, entering the
> group with C-u RET shows 6 articles.  When I remove the server from
> the Agent, then with the same keystroke I see 25 articles.  I've
> verified with another IMAP client that the latter is the truth.
>
> This is totally reproducible for me.
>
> -Nevin

Nevin,
I'm going to need a whole bunch more information.

Agentizing a group really shouldn't result in this sort of behavior
change. This will have to be a scattershot until we get some clues as
to what is happening.

Are you plugged the entire time?

What's the value of gnus-newsgroup-active when agentized
(unagentized)?

Are the 6 articles a subset of the 25? Are the 6 articles marked as
downloaded or undownloaded?

Kevin

Re: Missing articles when agentized

[Nevin Kapur]

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:
>
>> I've entered all my (remote) servers into the Agent.  I've noticed
>> that now Gnus does not show all the articles present in groups.  

> Nevin,
> I'm going to need a whole bunch more information.

Kevin: in order to get to the articles that I needed (which were not
being shown when the server was agentized) I removed it from the
Agent.  Then (sometime later) I ran gnus-agent-expire and I answered
yes to the questions that asked whether I wanted to remove some
directories that were no longer under Agent control.

Now when I entered the server in the Agent again to get you the
information that you wanted, I couldn't reproduce the problem.  (Which
is good I guess.)

If this happens again, I will report back with the information that
you require.

-Nevin

Re: Missing articles when agentized

[Kevin Greiner]

Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:

> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>
>> Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:
>>
>>> I've entered all my (remote) servers into the Agent.  I've noticed
>>> that now Gnus does not show all the articles present in groups.  
>
>> Nevin,
>> I'm going to need a whole bunch more information.
>
> Kevin: in order to get to the articles that I needed (which were not
> being shown when the server was agentized) I removed it from the
> Agent.  Then (sometime later) I ran gnus-agent-expire and I answered
> yes to the questions that asked whether I wanted to remove some
> directories that were no longer under Agent control.

Excellent, the directory deletion is a new feature.  Did it work well
for you?


> Now when I entered the server in the Agent again to get you the
> information that you wanted, I couldn't reproduce the problem.  (Which
> is good I guess.)

True, not the best, but acceptable.

Kevin

Re: Missing articles when agentized

[Nevin Kapur]

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> Excellent, the directory deletion is a new feature.  Did it work well
> for you?

Yes, except that it asks (seemingly) the same question over and over.
For example, it asked me if I wanted to delete the directory
~/News/agent/nnimap/jesse about 10 times.  I suspect that it was
really asking me if I wanted to delete subdirectories in there, one at
a time but only displaying the root directory.

-Nevin