On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 23:49 -0700, Duncan wrote: > The problem is likely this: For whatever reason, server related or due to > a faulty communication between PAN and the server, or possibly some file > system corruption due to a lockup at the wrong moment, PAN's record of the > xref message group numbers it has seen for that group are somehow wrong, > probably seriously higher than the numbers currently coming from the > server. This causes PAN to believe that everything the server has is > long-since dead history it knew about (and you read) ages ago. > > Note that PAN does /not/ reset all this information with a simply > unsubscribe/resubscribe to the group. > > A quick test to see if this is the case would be to create a second server > instance in PAN, but point it at the same physical server as the other > one. Then close PAN and restart it, going to the new server right away, > before establishing any connections with the old one, and download the > group list, then subscribe to the problem group. Check messages, quit > PAN, restart it, and see if PAN properly remembers where you were. If so, > you have your problem. If not, it's something more complex. > > Assuming that's the problem, and you want to resurrect your old server's > version of the group, try going into the group, then right clicking and > unsubscribing, THEN (while it's still listed) right clicking and "Delete > group". Exit PAN and go to your PAN dir (normally ~/.pan/data/) and > manually delete any stray files still around and recording info about that > group. Now, restart PAN, redownload the group list (necessary since you > deleted the group including its entry in the group list), and try again > resubscribing and testing. > > If that doesn't work but the new server test did, you missed a file > somewhere. You may have to subscribe to all your old groups in a new > server, and entirely delete the old one. > > If the quick-test above didn't eliminate the issue, then as I said, it's a > more complex issue, and will likely require some serious troubleshooting, > starting PAN from the command line with various debug switches and tracing > what's going on. Hopefully, it won't come to that, however, and the above > fixes the problem.
Well..I went back to Thunderbird for a bit and there are so many things I like better about Evolution that I went back and played with it some more. After a while of not getting any results I uninstalled it and deleted the .pan directory in /home/ and then reinstalled and it appears to be working now. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
