Re: [Pan-users] Purging headers

[Joe Zeff]

CSV4ME2 wrote:
> On Friday 05 December 2008, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > My news server went down and I had to change to a different server at
> > that service.  Alas, the servers use different article numbers.  (It's
> > cheap; what do you expect?)  Their tech support tells me that I'll have
> > to purge the headers to get things working again.  How do I do this,
> > without ending up with hundreds of old messages marked unread, or will I
> > just have to play with it after I'm done?
>
> Jeff

Who is this "Jeff" you are writing to?  The question was sent by *JOE* 
Zeff who hates having his name mangled like that.

> Read message nr's are stored in the ~/,pan2/newsrc-1 file.
> So, if those nr's change the content of that file is invalidated.
> You'll have to remove ALL headers from ALL groups you're subscribed to,
> unfortunately.
>
> - Use "Delete Selected Groups' Articles"  for that.
> - Refresh the group list as well.
> - Reload all your subcribed groups
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> C
>
>
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