* What is (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers number) supposed to do? (was: Gnus always downloads 19Mb headers)
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@ 2002-06-06 15:38 ` Reiner Steib
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2002-06-06 15:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Thu, Jun 06 2002, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai wrote:
> Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> I've experimented with setting it to a number, say N. Then, Gnus only
>> seemed to fetch old headers, if there were less than N articles in
>> this group (total number of articles). But maybe my impression wrong.
>> Is this how it's supposed to work?
>
> I think it's supposed to always fetch N old headers, unless the group
> has less than N articles (then it fetches all headers).
This is what I expected to see, too.
It would be very nice to have something like this (don't know if it's
possible):
1. Fetch unread (and ticked) articles.
2. Look at the References and fetch at most N old (parent-) articles of
those articles.
> It doesn't make sense for it to fetch no old headers at all in large
> groups.
I switched back to (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 2000) now. In some
groups (or even some threads?) I see old headers and in others not,
though there should be some very recent parent articles. E.g. here in
gnus.emacs.gnus I see:
+[ 16: Kai Großjohann ] Re: Gnus always downloads 19Mb headers
O [ 24: Armin Lambacher ] Re: strange error message with imap
O + [ 11: those who know me ha]
O [ 17: Armin Lambacher ]
O + [ 17: those who know me ha]
[ 37: Armin Lambacher ]
O + [ 24: Simon Josefsson ]
O [ 156: Armin Lambacher ]
O + [ 33: Simon Josefsson ]
[ 14: Armin Lambacher ]
+[ 19: Kai Großjohann ] Re: nnimap and split with parent
[ 35: Uli Wortmann ] Re: gnus/nnimap behaviour in case of [...]
I would expect to see (at least some of) the parents of _both_ of your
articles Kai, as the parents are from today, so they definitively are
within the value 2000 of gnus-fetch-old-headers. The highest article
number for g.e.g is around 22162. Changing gnus-fetch-old-headers to
30000 and re-entering the group also didn't show me all expected
parents. I can't see any systematic behavior. :-(
Bye, Reiner.
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