Christopher Fraracci posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:01:54 -0400 as excerpted:
> Hi, > I am new to using Pan, been using Grab-It for the last decade. Made the > transition to Linux and found Pan for checking usenet, works good but I > have a small issue. Is there anyway to set the default number of > headers? > Some of the groups I'd like to use have hundreds of thousands of > headers, > and I only want it to grab say the last fifty thousand or so, and then > regular daily updates after that. Is this possible? Thanks for any help. > I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and the newest version of Pan from the Software > Center. > <div dir="ltr"><div>Hi, <br></div> I am new to using Pan, been using > Grab-It for the last decade. Made the transition to Linux and found Pan > for checking usenet, works good but I have a small issue. Is there > anyway to set the default number of headers? Some of the groups I'd > like to use have hundreds of thousands of headers, and I only want it to > grab say the last fifty thousand or so, and then regular daily updates > after that. Is this possible? Thanks for any help. I'm using Ubuntu > 12.04 and the newest version of Pan from the Software Center.<br> </div> No need to repeat yourself twice, especially not with HTML. Many here (including me) use pan (via gmane.org's list2news service) to read and reply to this group, and if you're using pan you've likely already seen the effect of that. So if you /must/ use it elsewhere, please at least turn it off when posting to this list. No personal offense intended, but frankly, I don't believe I'm the only one here who believes plain text, with *MARKUP* /like/ _this_ if desired, is quite sufficient, and given the security issues of HTML messages, there's only three classes of people that choose to post with it, the spammers trying to fancy up their message or hide something, the spyware and malware folks trying to hide their dirty work, and the people who simply no no better and haven't thought about the security implications of HTML messages. (Consider all the security issues mail clients have had over the years. How many of them were issues for plain-text-only mail clients?) Which one of these three are you? (Rhetorical question. I'm obviously assuming the last, and that you'll change after having the argument presented to you.) It's not clear from your post whether you've found this or not (maybe you did and just want a different default for N), but it's possible to fetch either the last N days worth of headers, or the last N headers, as well as to fetch them all, and to fetch from your last update. There are three header-fetch menu options (with three different corresponding toolbar buttons); the "Get Headers..." one is what you want. As is traditional with menu entries, the "..." indicates that invoking that function will open a dialog -- in this case, one that has all the options mentioned above. Set the option you want and hit Execute and it'll go to work, fetching headers based on the selected option, for the current group only. This function/button is designed specifically for times when fetching all new headers (which would mean all of them on a new group) isn't desired. (The other two header-fetch buttons/menu-entries are fetch new headers, for either subscribed or selected groups, one button each. Of course both of these will fetch all headers for any groups that haven't been fetched before.) If you'd already found that and simply wanted a different default, at least here (running live-git pan, pulled yesterday but the only update from the previous pull was a translation update, so I didn't bother rebuilding), pan appears to remember the value of "N" for both number of headers and number of days, between sessions. However, it only appears to remember which radio-button option from the dialog was selected, within the same session. A new session always appears to default to the top choice, get the last N days' headers. Beyond that, of course pan is freedomware. If you don't like the defaults encoded in the sources, you can of course patch them to change those defaults... as I do for a few other packages. (I run gentoo and only install freedomware (with the exception of a few firmware files), so build all my packages from sources. As such, making sure a particular patch is applied is normally a simple matter of dropping it in the appropriate directory so it is automatically found and applied every time that package is updated.) However, there are a few pan settings that don't appear in the GUI for various reasons, but are honored if they're changed in the config files. It's not necessary to patch and rebuild pan to change these, only to edit the appropriate config file or set the appropriate environmental variable. I've posted the list here a number of times, so you can check the list archives (maybe on gmane =:^) if you're interested, or ask and I'll repost, as I believe it has been awhile. Or just take a look at the config files (normally found in ~/.pan2/) yourself, and you'll find most of 'em. =:^) -- 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 https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
