On Sunday 17 August 2008 04:35:08 Duncan wrote:
>... new-pan (unlike old-pan) doesn't save off your
> own posts before they are sent. If they don't show up on the server,
> that therefore means you don't have a copy of them.
OIC. Well, as long as I can get (new) Pan to hang on to messages, then I
shall have a copy of mine in there, and I would not need a 'spare' copy.
> ... if you set do-not-expire, all downloaded messages
> including your own... don't expire. You then delete messages if you
> like, and keep messages if you like....
That's what I prefer.
> there's nothing stopping you from doing so, other than disk space, as long
> as you have no-expire set, and a sufficiently large cache set.
Does (new) Pan warn if the cache is approaching full?
> [1] One of the problems with old-pan turned out to be that for your own
> messages, you /always/ saw the copy of the message pan saved as you sent
> it. Old-pan simply didn't download your messages, since it already had a
> copy.
OIC. Hadn't realised that..
> Hope that clarifies things.
Absolutely! Many thanks indeed.
> Perhaps with said clarification, new-pan will fill your needs after all.
It would seem so, and I will give it another try.
But first I need to check on its handling of multiple servers. Does new
Pan still fetch automatically from all servers defined (for subscribed
newsgroups)?
That would be a problem for me, as although I routinely fetch from 3
servers, I have two or three others in reserve for temporary use on the
occasions when a regular server is down, and I would not want fetches from
the reserve servers to be done routinely...
--
/\/\aurice
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