* Should articles be removed from the cache when they are read?
@ 1998-02-12 20:39 Jonas Kvarnström
1998-02-13 12:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Jonas Kvarnström @ 1998-02-12 20:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
When I read a cached article, should it be deleted from the cache
automatically?
According to the Gnus manual, when I have an article that I want to
"keep and treasure forever", I should make it persistent, so that it
"just won't be deleted".
Also, according to the Gnus FAQ:
> If you tap * on an article, you have made it persistent. Nothing you
> ever do, except using the M-* command, will remove it from the cache
> where it's stored.
> If you mark an article with the E mark, (ie., made it expirable), it
> will be deleted by the mail backend when it reaches a certain
> age. The persistent copy of the message will not be touched.
Since I had read that, I was a bit confused when I marked about a
hundred articles in an old mailing list archive as persistent and
exited the group, and Gnus told me it was removing the cached
articles. I verified that this really happened - the entire cache
subdirectory for that group had disappeared.
When I read the manual more carefully, I could see that articles are
by default removed from the cache when they were read
(gnus-cache-remove-articles includes 'read). This seems to contradict
the FAQ and the documentation for persistent articles.
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* Re: Should articles be removed from the cache when they are read?
1998-02-12 20:39 Should articles be removed from the cache when they are read? Jonas Kvarnström
@ 1998-02-13 12:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-15 13:45 ` Jonas Kvarnström
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1998-02-13 12:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
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jonkv@ida.liu.se (Jonas Kvarnström) writes:
> Since I had read that, I was a bit confused when I marked about a
> hundred articles in an old mailing list archive as persistent and
> exited the group, and Gnus told me it was removing the cached
> articles. I verified that this really happened - the entire cache
> subdirectory for that group had disappeared.
This might mean that you've changed `gnus-use-cache' from the default
`passive' to t (or something). The cache (when it is not passive) is
very, uh, active.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: Should articles be removed from the cache when they are read?
1998-02-13 12:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1998-02-15 13:45 ` Jonas Kvarnström
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jonas Kvarnström @ 1998-02-15 13:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> > Since I had read that, I was a bit confused when I marked about a
> > hundred articles in an old mailing list archive as persistent and
> > exited the group, and Gnus told me it was removing the cached
> > articles. I verified that this really happened - the entire cache
> > subdirectory for that group had disappeared.
>
> This might mean that you've changed `gnus-use-cache' from the default
> `passive' to t (or something). The cache (when it is not passive) is
> very, uh, active.
Oops. Yes, you're right, I had set it to t, since I wanted ticked and
dormant articles to be cached (if I read the manual correctly, only
articles explicitly marked with '*' are cached when the cache is
passive). I'll reread the manual a couple of times... I still think
the manual is a little bit misleading when it says that a persistent
article "just won't be deleted", though.
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