Re: Offline body retrieval

[Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > > What is your `gnus-read-active-file' variable?
> > > 
> >  'some'
> 
> That's what I also use.  I'm unable to reproduce this bug.  Try
> running Emacs with -q.
> 

  Well I tried `xemacs -q' and loaded my .gnus manually. No joy.This
was to try and rule out anything strange in my .emacs right?  I've
included my environment details below just in case anything jumps
out. Interesting reading eh :-)

  I have noticed a few things, but I'm still at a loss as to what the
controlling factors are. As mentioned previously, 'g' in the group
buffer does not appear to update the unread article count (at least
most of the time - I may have seen it do so once or twice). A '3 g' in
the group buffer *does* update the unread article count and I can then
download these articles with a 'J s' or 'J u'.

  Again, as previously mentioned, I can then go 'J j' and read the
downloaded articles. Upon restarting gnus or conducting a 'g',
however, the unread article count appears to revert to the figures
that were correct *before* I downloaded the new articles. Looking in
~/News/agent/nntp/somewhere.com/agent.lib/active reveals that the
numbers in respect of a given newsgroup do indeed reflect the number
of unread articles *prior* to the last download??? The .agentview,
.overview and article files in the /somewhere.com news hierarchy *do*
show/contain the last downloaded articles.

  Shouldn't the .../somewhere.com/agent.lib/active file reflect what
is contained in the agent news hierarchy files?

  Much puzzled.

-- 
Mike.  

Quassia Gnus v0.17; nntp 5.0; nnvirtual 1.1; nnml 1.0; nnmh 1.0; nndoc
1.0; nndraft 1.0; nnfolder 1.0; nnagent 1.0 XEmacs 19.16 "Lille"
[Lucid] (i386-pc-linux) of Sun Nov 2 1997 on lotusland.demon.co.uk

------------------ Environment follows ------------------

(setq gnus-select-method
      '(nntp "news.demon.co.uk"))
(setq gnus-message-archive-group "Sent_News-Postings_&_Mail")
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnml "")))
(setq gnus-article-display-hook
      '(gnus-article-highlight gnus-article-hide-headers-if-wanted
gnus-article-hide-boring-headers gnus-article-treat-overstrike
gnus-article-maybe-highlight gnus-article-display-x-face
gnus-smiley-display))
(setq gnus-plugged nil)
(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
      '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number gnus-thread-sort-by-subject
gnus-thread-sort-by-date gnus-thread-sort-by-score))
(setq gnus-summary-mode-hook
      '(gnus-agent-mode gnus-xmas-switch-horizontal-scrollbar-off
gnus-xmas-setup-summary-toolbar gnus-xmas-summary-menu-add))
(setq gnus-group-mode-hook
      '(gnus-agent-mode gnus-xmas-setup-group-toolbar gnus-xmas-group-menu-add))
(setq gnus-article-x-face-command
      'gnus-xmas-article-display-xface)
(setq gnus-article-mode-hook
      '(gnus-xmas-article-menu-add))
(setq gnus-setup-news-hook
      '(gnus-agent-queue-setup))
(setq gnus-asynchronous nil)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-use-article-prefetch)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-prefetched-article-deletion-strategy)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-use-header-prefetch)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-async-prefetch-article-p)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-global-score-files)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-file-single-match-alist)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-file-multiple-match-alist)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-file-suffix)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-adaptive-file-suffix)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-find-score-files-function)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-interactive-default-score)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-expiry-days)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-update-score-entry-dates)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-orphan-score)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-decay-scores)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-decay-score-function)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-decay-constant)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-decay-scale)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-home-score-file)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-home-adapt-file)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-default-adaptive-score-alist)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-ignored-adaptive-words)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-default-ignored-adaptive-words)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-default-adaptive-word-score-alist)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-mimic-keymap)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-exact-adapt-limit)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-uncacheable-files)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-default-header)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-default-type)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-default-fold)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-default-duration)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-score-after-write-file-function)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-topic-mode)
(setq gnus-topic-mode-hook
      '(gnus-xmas-topic-menu-add))
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-topic-line-format)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-topic-indent-level)
;; (makeunbound 'gnus-topic-display-empty-topics)
(setq nnmail-split-methods
      '(("GNUS" "^To:.*gnus")
	("GNUS" "^CC:.*gnus")
	("GNUS" "^To:.*ding")
	("GNUS" "^CC:.*ding")
	("INCOMING" "")))
(setq nnmail-spool-file "~/Mail/INBOX")
(setq message-from-style
      'angles)
(setq message-required-news-headers
      '(From Newsgroups Subject Date Message-ID
	     (optional . Organization)
	     Lines
	     (optional . X-Newsreader)
	     X-No-Archive))
(setq message-send-mail-function
      'gnus-agent-send-mail)
(setq message-post-method
      '(nnspool ""))
(setq message-setup-hook
      '((lambda nil
	  (if
	      (message-news-p)
	      (setq message-signature-file "~/.signature-news")
	    (setq message-signature-file "~/.signature-mail")))))
(setq message-mode-hook
      '(message-xmas-maybe-fontify))
(setq message-header-setup-hook
      '(gnus-inews-insert-archive-gcc gnus-inews-insert-gcc))
(setq message-signature-file "~/.signature-mail")