Hey folks, I'm writing an application in which I'd like to be able to retrieve the last <n> messages from a newsgroup hosted on a Cyrus nntp server. I figured I could use the ARTICLE command to select the last article in the group and then use the LAST command to step backwards an appropriate number of articles. Unfortunately, this results in an error:
C: GROUP my.group S: 211 5 6 22 my.group C: ARTICLE 22 S: 220 22 <...message id...> S: ...article contents... S: . C: LAST S: 422 No previous article in this group The RFC implies this ought to work -- the ARTICLE command is supposed to update the "current article pointer", and the description of the LAST command says: The internally maintained "current article pointer" is set to the previous article in the current newsgroup. If already positioned at the first article of the newsgroup, an error message is returned and the current article remains selected. So, is this a bug? Or just a poorly specified RFC (it doesn't *explicitly* state that you have to use NEXT before you use LAST, but neither does it state the opposite). There are obviously other solutions to my particular goal (e.g., using XOVER or LISTGROUP to get a list of valid messages), and I'll go with one of those right now. -- Lars ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
