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From: Arcady Genkin <agenkin@cdf.toronto.edu>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Sporadic NNIMAP error with CVS gnus
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 19:12:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uovg28t37f.fsf@bashful.cdf.toronto.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DEC2B4C.2000006@xpediantsolutions.com> (Kevin Greiner's message of "Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:55:56 -0600")

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> Pls check the contents of the .overview file for the group that is
> getting this error.  It should be located at
> News/agent/nnimap/MAIL_SERVER_NAME/MAIL_BOX_NAME/.overview.  Does the
> line, "Free CDs ..." appear in this file EXACTLY as shown below?

Yes, it does, just like that.

> If it does, run (gnus-agent-regenerate-group "GROUP_NAME") to repair
> the .overview.  

This simply truncated the .overview file to zero-length.  However,
when I entered the group the usual way, the .overview file got filled,
and the problem is gone for now.

> This should fix your problem for now.  I'll check in new code
> tomorrow to improve the error checking.  What we're seeing right now
> is a symptom.  It may take some time to find the cause.

Thanks!
-- 
Arcady Genkin : CDF Systems Administrator
http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/~agenkin/contact.html

guilt is the cause of more disauders
than history's most obscene marorders (E.E. Cummings)



  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-06  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-02  0:25 Arcady Genkin
2002-12-02  3:31 ` Kevin Greiner
2002-12-02  7:07 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-12-02 15:46   ` Arcady Genkin
2002-12-03  3:32     ` Simon Josefsson
2002-12-03  3:45       ` Arcady Genkin
2002-12-03  3:55         ` Kevin Greiner
2002-12-06  0:12           ` Arcady Genkin [this message]
2002-12-03  4:11         ` Simon Josefsson

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