Re: Gnus Agent and cached articles.

Re: Gnus Agent and cached articles.

[Kevin Greiner]

Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> I recently moved my gnus setup from a shared machine to my own
> (dialup) system.  I have started to use the agent, and it seems to
> work quite well, with one exception.  I am still using the same news
> server.  In one group I have literally thousands of unread articles
> that I entered into the cache using `*' a long time before I started
> using the agent.  When I am unplugged I can read these articles just
> fine, but the agent seem to consider these articles `undownloaded' and
> thus inaccessible.  For instance, they appear in the same colour in
> the summary buffer and, more importantly, commands such as `n' will
> ignore these articles.
>
> It would be really nice if the agent was smart enough to know that
> these articles are accessible even when unplugged.

Agreed.  Unfortunately, this will take some time as it implies that
the agent should check for the cache at many different execution
points.  I'll look into the problem and see what can be done.

Kevin