From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15112 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Borges Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Gnus-5.5] Changing news server -- how well does it work? Date: 27 Apr 1998 15:09:09 -0600 Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154199 20202 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08660 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:07:53 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA24591 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:11:45 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAH23439; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:10:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:09:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA23424 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:09:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 27078 invoked by uid 504); 27 Apr 1998 21:09:17 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27075 invoked from network); 27 Apr 1998 21:09:17 -0000 Original-Received: from manager.colorado.edu (HELO cdc.noaa.gov) (128.138.218.210) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 1998 21:09:17 -0000 Original-Received: from starr.cdc.noaa.gov (starr [128.138.218.6]) by cdc.noaa.gov (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA14835 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:09:11 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by starr.cdc.noaa.gov (8.8.6) id PAA17718; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:09:10 -0600 (MDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: mb In-Reply-To: Mark Borges's message of "23 Apr 1998 12:23:01 -0600" Original-Lines: 35 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15112 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15112 >> On 23 Apr 1998 12:23:01 -0600, >> Mark Borges(mb) wrote: mb> My current newsfeed (news.colorado.edu) has become extremely flaky, mb> and I would like to move to an alternate as my primary server. I've mb> read through the `Changing Servers' node on the info pages, and am mb> very tempted to switch servers using gnus-change-server(). mb> Does this work reasonably well, or will I find some unexpected and/or mb> undocumented surprises? In particular, I'm curious how the transition mb> will handle: mb> (1) cached news articles. I have saved many old articles to local mb> disk, and wonder if I'll continue to have access to them (with mb> their old article numbers) via the Gnus interface. Now that I've switched (and hand-edited the .eld file to preserve my mailfolder ticks) I've run into a problem -- it seems that some of the articles in my cache folder have article numbers larger than those for the same group in the new server. Consequently, I think this is confusing Gnus such that the *Group* buffer never shows any new articles as arriving (when in fact there are). Is there a simple way to resequence one's cached article numbers to start at a lower number? I tried using gnus-cache-generate-active(), but you don't want to know how much fun that was to recover from (somehow my top level ~/Mail/active file got wiped out). So, before I try shoot myself in the foot again, I thought I'd ask if others have run into this problem, and, if so, what the solution was. Thanks. -- -mb-