[sylpheed:34380] Re: News configuration

[Ricardo Mones]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:07:37 -0500
Frank <beacon at videotron.ca> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:31:52 +0100
> Ricardo Mones <mones at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:52:11 -0500
> > Frank McCormick <beacon at videotron.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > I recently have begun using Sylpheed (3.1.0beta1 under Debian Sid) to
> > > read news feeds from gmane. So far there are upwards of 3000 articles
> > > in the directory for Debian. How (if it's possible) do I limit the
> > > total number of articles.
> > > Any advice would be appreciated.
> > 
> >   Preferences for the news account -> Send -> Receive limit
> 
>     But that doesn't control the total number of messages in
> the account..just the number being downloaded.
> It appears there is no way to control what I want to control :)

  Well, it's a different paradigm from mail, it only reflects what's in
the news server and I suspect some permission on the server is required
to delete messages. What you probably want is hiding read messages.

> Maybe I should file a wishlist bug--where does Sylpheed maintain
> its buglist ?

  This is it, so go ahead :)
-- 
 Ricardo Mones
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