[Pan-users] Re: Switching between servers

[lamprez]

On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:37:25 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> lamprez <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 07 Sep 2007
> 22:29:01 +0000:
> 
>> I have my servers list 3 providers.
>> I would like to define from whitch server Pan will download headers
>> list in my subscribed groups.
>> 
>> How can I do this in Pan ???
>> 
>> 
>> PS. I try to say more cleary; i have 3 providers (nntp.ipartners.pl,
>> nttp.atman.pl and gmane); now, i would like to subscribed some group
>> (alt.pl.*) and define that nntp.ipartens.pl shopuld send mi headers
>> list for this group. How can I do this in Pan ???
> 
> pan >0.90 normally downloads headers from all servers carrying the
> group, then starts grabbing messages as they are available.  Thus,
> servers that don't have good message completion will skip ahead and be
> done first, leaving the server with full message completion to continue
> downloading until they are done.  Of course this is modified by the
> number of connections and allowed speed on each server.

Doesn't work with my providers; just download headers/messages from one 
server


> Note that while the GUI settings only have main and backup, two tiers,
> if with pan shut down you edit servers.xml, you can set as many tiers as
> you wish up to the number of servers you have.  That'll cause pan to
> check them in sequence and only go to the next one if the previous one
> didn't have the message.

I'd like to see more GUIsh options that refers to functionality of Pan; 
editing configs file with Vim seams to be more oldschool but without good 
manual/documentation it's more difficult than should it be