Tassilo Horn <[email protected]> writes: > >>> You use the Gnus agent for that server. >> >> I do not really understand what that means, but that is something I >> can find out later. ;-} > > The agent is sort of a cache, so that you have to download articles only > once. In general, you always want that for newsgroups. But for mail > groups, it's a different story. When you delete a message (possibly > with another mail client, e.g. the web interface of your mail provider), > the agent doesn't recognize that and you end up with strange results > like duplicate messages and stuff like you mentioned.
Okay, that makes everything clear. I would prefer to work with agent then. Because that is faster and also handy when I get offline. But as long as I do not everything with GNUS I'll keep it disabled. On the other hand: why can GNUS not clean it up? >> One strange thing, the IMAPS server was mentioned two times. I do not >> go often to the server buffer, but I have seen that more often. Not >> always by the way. What could be happening there and is that something >> to worry about? > > Yes, that looks awkward. The only possibility I can imagine is that in > your .gnus.el there are multiple definitions of that server. Properly not, because when I start GNUS it is not the case. > Or maybe there's only one definition which contains a dynamically > generated part, so that multiple calls to add-to-list (starting/quitting > gnus multiple times) lead to multple entries that are slightly > different. That would be more logical. I'll try to find it. Thanks for the help. >> At the moment I am using Gnus v5.11. >> >> Also a strange thing. After disabling the agent for my IMAPS server, >> the news server -for which I changed nothing- said for all messages >> that they had to be downloaded. Which was impossible to do. The only >> solution I found was quiting GNUS and starting it again. > > Hm, I'd suggest to upgrade to emacs 23.1 and use the Gnus version > bundled with it. Maybe that doesn't give those weird results. I was planning to update my system and then this would automatically take place. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
