Re: gnus-summary-refer-parent-article doesn't work

[Adam Sjøgren]

Random832 writes:

> If I press ^ on an article whose parent does exist on the server but not
> in the summary buffer I expected it to fetch the parent from the
> server. Instead I just get "Couldn't fetch article <Message-ID>", which
> makes the key essentially useless since if it only works for articles
> whose parent is in the summary list I can simply use P to select it.

What do you have gnus-refer-article-method set to?

,----[ C-h v gnus-refer-article-method RET ]
| gnus-refer-article-method is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
| Its value is (current
|  (nnml "archive")
|  (nntp "news.gmane.org")
|  (nntp "news.sunsite.dk")
|  (nnweb "google"
|         (nnweb-type google)))
| 
| Original value was current
| 
| Documentation:
| Preferred method for fetching an article by Message-ID.
| The value of this variable must be a valid select method as discussed
| in the documentation of `gnus-select-method'.
| 
| It can also be a list of select methods, as well as the special symbol
| `current', which means to use the current select method.  If it is a
| list, Gnus will try all the methods in the list until it finds a match.
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