Re: gnus-summary-normal-undownloaded-face

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com> writes:

> Well, I am not the original poster but I would like to include myself to
> this thread since I am suffering from the same problems (unread articles
> in IMAP and NNTP groups have "wrong" colours).
>
> * Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, the first question should be, do you have the agent enabled for
>> the particular group that you are viewing?  The absolute certain
>> answer is to open your summary buffer then evaluate the variable (c-h v)
>> gnus-newsgroup-agentized.  Its value will be non-nil when the agent is
>> enabled for this group.
>
> ,----
> | gnus-newsgroup-agentized's value is 
> | ("nntp:gmane" "nnimap:192.168.0.1")
> | 
> | Local in buffer *Summary nntp+gmane:gmane.emacs.gnus.general*; global
> | value is nil
> `----
>
>> If the agent is enabled, eval the variable
>> gnus-summary-use-undownloaded-faces while still in the summary buffer.
>> Let me know what you find and we'll proceed from there.
>
> ,----
> | gnus-summary-use-undownloaded-faces's value is t
> | Local in buffer *Summary nntp+gmane:gmane.emacs.gnus.general*; global
> | value is nil
> `----

Marcus,

This means that the agent is working as designed.  You might want to
consider reading the 'Agent Visuals' section of the manual if you
would like to override the default behavior.

> By the way, I discovered another problem with the new agent code. One
> newsgroup I read from my local inn shows 80000 articles in my group
> buffer when the agent is enabled. If I disable the agent the correct
> number (about 600) is shown.

This isn't a problem.  It just means that at sometime in the distant
past you agentized this group for a short time.  As the server's
active range moved forward these articles became lost and forgotten.
Due to recent bug fix, gnus will now expand the active range to
include all old agentized articles.

Personally, I'd resolve this by using a negative number (perhaps -100)
for the article count when opening the group.  That should result in
the old agentized articles being displayed.  You can then mark them as
read.  Gnus will, upon being started the next time, show the 600
currently active articles.

Kevin