From: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.a1bany.edu>
Subject: Re: Messages marked as ancient without apparent reason
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:06:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i7wtmgpe4t.fsf@hilbert.math.albany.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8764u0aakr.fsf@debian.IGP>
Andreas Goesele <goesele@hfph.mwn.de> writes:
> Every now and then (mostly on weekends?) *part* (the majority) of the
> older but *not* read messages are marked as ancient with an O. This is
> strange for two reasons: 1. I neither read them nor marked them as
> read. 2. If I enter a group without prefix I normally don't see any
> ancient messages, I have to enter C-u before entering to see the
> ancient messages.
>
> I don't have any explanation for that behaviour and really would like
> to get rid of it. Any pointer to an explanation would be welcome!
What is your setup?
For example,
1. What protocol for mail pickup, i.e., "imap", or "pop", or
"webmail", ...?
2. What gnus mail backend are you using?
3. Is it correct that you are NOT running gnus as system
administrator?
-- Bill
next parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-20 20:06 UTC|newest]
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2005-08-20 20:06 ` William F Hammond [this message]
2005-12-18 9:56 ` Michael Welle
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