Re: [Pan-users] Messages require multiple clicking to view

[Wolf J . Flywheel]

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On Friday 03 January 2003 19:29, Sam Alexander wrote:

> About one out of every 5 times I click on a post, I get a red X to the
> [...]

> Why does this happen?  And what does the red X mean?  I assumed that it
> meant the message isn't available on the server, but many of the
> messages that come up fine have the red X.

        Are you downloading lots of other stuff when this happens?  Usually 
(for 
me) this behavior indicates I'm trying to connect too much.  If looking 
at Pan's log shows "Too many connections, limit is N..." errors for the 
articles you're trying to get, go into your server configuration and 
reduce the number of allowed simultaneous connections by one, and see if 
that helps.

        As for good messages having an X, Pan may not clear the "Unavailable" 
status if a formerly-unavailable one is retrieved later.  I recall seeing 
this behavior at one time, but I seem to think it's been fixed recently.  
You don't say which version you're using... also, there was a bug [1] 
fixed where Pan would *mark* a message as unavailable (because the server 
said so), but continue trying to get it -- looks like your version is 
older than 0.12.1, because that's when it was fixed.  (Now, you have to 
manually go mark "unavailable" articles if you want to try them again.)  
This bug would result, in your case, in Pan showing the red X by some 
articles that it managed to retrieve eventually.

        I hope this is useful to you in some way.  :)

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86795

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