Maurice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:40:19 +0100:
> (Using 'old' Pan 0.14.2.91 under Mandriva 2008.0) > > In several newsgroup folders I cannot see any 'read' items dated before > March this year, although in at least one there are postings going back > to 2007. > > Is there some kind of date or 'number of postings' cut-off for > displaying postings? > Presumably Pan hasn't deleted them, so how can I get it to display them? I'm not quite clear on what you mean, whether it's the post bodies or the overviews/headers you can't see. If it's the overviews/headers, how do you know there's posts going back? Maybe you're checking with another client, or manually, using telnet? Anyway... With old-pan, posts (overviews/headers) were expired when the server expired them (well, on next connect when pan found out they were expired on the server). One of the problems with this is that servers sometimes have issues, and may appear to lose their posts for a time, before they are restored from backup or wherever. If you meant you couldn't see the headers, maybe this is what happened, and pan deleted them when they went missing from the server. When they were restored on the server, since they were old messages, pan didn't download them again. If this is your case, try the download all headers option (in old-pan this is under more download options). That should get all the old headers again. There's a checkbox to get bodies while you are at it too. If it's the posts themselves (aka the bodies) that are gone but you can see the overviews/headers, presumably pan expired the bodies when it reached its cache size limit. If the server still has the whole posts, you should be able to click on them and download them again (perhaps after setting the cache size larger so it doesn't just expire something else). However, it's possible the server is still showing the overviews/ headers, but no longer has the whole posts itself. If you've not updated the overviews/headers in awhile, it's also possible that you are trying to work from old data already entirely expired off the server. In either case, you're out of luck. If the data's not on the server, you can't download it, so once it's gone locally, it's gone. HTH... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
