Re: Pop weirdness in p0.77

[Neil Crellin <neilc@Tesserae.COM>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Matt Pharr <mmp@Graphics.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> 
> > Now *that's* weird.  I (and other people) have seen problems where it was
> > necessary to do a M-x nnml-generate-nov-databases to get new mail to appear 
> > in nnml groups.  (This only happened to me once with 0.77, most of the time 
> > it has been fine.)  The fact that that is also happening in nnfolder groups 
> > is, well, um, no doubt some sort of useful clue.
> 
> It kinda sounds like the active file isn't written properly...

I periodically see a different number of new articles when I enter a
group than the *Group* summary said were there. One time I took a
close look at the .overview file and found it'd just skipped one of
the articles it'd written into the directory, ie articles 1546, 1547,
1548 and 1549 existed, with both 1548 and 1549 newly fetched messages,
but the .overview file had entries for 1546, 1547 and 1549, no 1548.
I watch carefully for this now, and I do nnml-generate-nov-databases-1
and reenter the group when I notice it and find the article marked
read once it's finally added to the .overview. Be nice to track this
down. 

-- 
Neil Crellin <neilc@wallaby.cc>