David posted on Sat, 13 Aug 2016 12:57:53 +0000 as excerpted: > Looking at this because scoring rules are beginning to behave strangely > - for example "Ignore" rules are beginning to be ignored, and "Watch" > rule disappear when I respond to a watched thread. > > My Score file is nearly 200 kB which may or may not be the problem. > > Looking at the first few entries of my Score file I can see scoring > rules to watch articles which are dated back to June 2014. > > The articles have long since been deleted automatically. > > Is there any reason why these scores are still here, and are not deleted > when the matching article is deleted? > > Alternatively, is there a setting to remove scores when an article > expires? > > I note that the rules have an expiry date of July 2014 (so only valid > for one month). Is there any "tidy" option to clean out expired "watch" > scores? > > This does seem like the equivalent of a memory leak - continual > extending of resources without any tidying up.
There's no automatic cleanup... I suppose because it's a simple text file that (in the absence of anyone coding up a score-janitor routine and posting it as a patch here or on bugzilla, or doing a pull request) users are ultimately expected to be able to edit and clean up themselves. FWIW, I've been using pan for a decade and a half (well, by early next year) here, and while I do occasionally use pan's GUI to quick-add scores, I optimize it manually using a text editor, cleaning out expired scores (tho I keep one or two around for reference if I don't have any active non-permanent rules) and consolidating unexpiring scores both to optimize pan's parsing and to keep it clean and easily human readable over time, so pan's log says I only have seven scoring rules in three sections... but many of those rules have hundreds of individual condition lines. -- 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
