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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: more nnbabyl woes
Date: 22 Aug 1996 17:33:54 +0200
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Allan Poindexter <allan@royal-oak.csc.ti.com> writes:

> It was not to be, however.  Soon the problem reappeared but this
> time there were no double server definitions to blame.  Gnus would
> always read the mail correctly on startup but at some indeterminate
> time afterwards it would fail to see any new mail.  On a hunch I
> tried manually closing the server to see what would happen.  Bingo.
> It always reads the mail correctly when the server is not already
> open and then fails after an indeterminate number of later M-g's.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?  

I took a peek at `nnbabyl-request-scan', and it looks fishy.  Try this
patch to nnbabyl.el:

*** nnbabyl.el~	Mon Aug 19 00:59:30 1996
--- nnbabyl.el	Thu Aug 22 17:33:08 1996
***************
*** 205,210 ****
--- 205,211 ----
  			 (car active) (cdr active) group))))))
  
  (deffoo nnbabyl-request-scan (&optional group server)
+   (nnbabyl-possibly-change-newsgroup group server)
    (nnbabyl-read-mbox)
    (nnmail-get-new-mail 
     'nnbabyl 

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