[Pan-users] Pan hanging on exit

[Joe Zeff]

For the last several days, Pan has been very slow to exit.  The window 
turns gray (a gnome thing, to tell you that the program's Very Busy) and 
a dialog pops up asking if I want to force quit.  If I cancel, it will 
eventually close after several minutes.

At first, I thought it was a problem with newsrc.  Checking, I found 
that the list of articles for my main group was in several sections, so 
I changed it to 0-N.  This brought back the old "mark them all read when 
you select the group" issue, but at least, I know what to do about that.

Alas, the main issue hasn't changed.  Looking in ~/.pan2, I find that 
the article cache has over 3,000 entries and is several meg in size. 
All this from two newsgroups, neither of which allows binaries.  I 
suspect that this is part of the problem, but can't find a way within 
pan to clear the cache and don't want to do it by hand until I'm sure 
it's safe.  Suggestions?

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