Re: Quassia Gnus v0.16 is released

[jdc@chow.mat.jhu.edu (Dan Christensen)]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> jdc@chow.mat.jhu.edu (Dan Christensen) writes:
> 
> > One further clue:  it happens in nnfolder groups, but not in nntp
> > groups.  I don't have any other groups handy to test it on.  Any
> > ideas where I could look to fix this?
> 
> Perhaps it has something to do with sparse articles or something.  Try
> starting Emacs with -q and see if the problem goes away.  If so, try
> adding in your variable settings until you find one that makes Gnus
> misbehave in this manner.

Extensive experimentation has revealed that the problem with unmarkable
messages occurs if gnus-use-cache is set to nil and not if gnus-use-cache
is set to 'passive.  It happens in both nnfolder and nntp groups.
(In the parameters to a topic containing nnfolder groups I set
gnus-use-cache to nil, so that's why I thought it was specific to
nnfolder groups.)

Here's a trimmed .gnus for which the problem occurs:

(setq gnus-nntp-server nil
      gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.jhu.edu")
      gnus-directory "~/Gnus"
      gnus-use-long-file-name t
      gnus-save-newsrc-file nil
      gnus-save-killed-list nil
      gnus-check-new-newsgroups nil
      gnus-check-bogus-newsgroups nil
      gnus-read-active-file 'some
      gnus-use-scoring nil
      gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnfolder ""))
      nnmail-spool-file nil
      nnfolder-directory "~/Gnus/Mail"
      nnfolder-active-file "~/Gnus/Mail/active" 
      nnmail-use-long-file-names t
)

(setq gnus-use-cache nil)

Dan

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Dan Christensen
jdc@math.jhu.edu