[sylpheed:30464] Re: Possible problem with newreader part of Sylphhed

Gene Goldenfeld genegold at highstream.net
Wed Nov 29 05:32:26 JST 2006


Roger Pryor <rjpryor at unix.infoserve.net> wrote:

>Hi:
>
>I've been using Sylpheed both as an email program and as as newsreader for
>many years now (Thank you Hiro).  Recently I have seen a possible problem
>with one specific newsgroup.   Two other news groupd do not show this
>problem.
>
>This particular newsgroup has a moderate amount of traffic, and currently
>is up to a message ID of 138403.  The problem is that the summary pane 
>shows, e.g. 175 175 175 for the new, unread and # columns, yet when I go
>to read the newsgroup there is only one message, and the summary changes
>to 0 0 1.
>
>This problem has persisted for several weeks, having been perfectly ok for
>several years.  I may have also seen this before some time ago on a
>different, much higher traffic group, when it went away after a few days.
>
>Has anyone got any ideas?  I will look for more information if requested.

I raised this in July under v. 2.2.6/Win32 in 28251, since I'd never
seen it happen with any other email application.  I've seen it again
a few times recently and it seems to come and go.  Another user
suggested it's a server problem. 

Gene


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