Re: [Noffle-users] Marked for Download Problem

[Jim H. <jim...@ac...>]

On 31-Mar-2004 Andre Berger wrote:
> I see a strange behavior in noffle 1.1.5: articles Marked for
> Download are never fetched. In the first place, I don't understand
> why there are such articles anyway.

Noffle fetches from upstream in basically two steps. First it issues an XOVER
to get the overview info for the unread articles upstream. The filters run on
the overview information. Articles are created at that point as 'Marked for
download', assuming they survived filtering, and entered in the list of
articles to be requested from upstream.

The next step is to take articles to be requested in turn and download their
bodies.

If anything goes wrong with the second step, articles will be left as 'marked
for download'. I see this quite often from my upstream; the upstream is usually
overloaded and will have overviews available before bodies. The article bodies
appear on subsequent fetches. If, however, your newsreader caches articles, you
won't see the body when it arrives, as the newsreader will just show the 'body'
it got before, the one saying 'Marked for download'. Which newsreader are you
using?

> I'm on modem dialup, and my
> /etc/ppp/ip-up contains "noffle -n && noffle -f", my /etc/ppp/ip-down
> "noffle -o".

Ah. You're using online mode. That shouldn't make any difference, but I don't
use it myself so I can't be sure.

If you run noffle -f from the command line, it should give you some details on
what it downloads. The same details will be recorded in the syslog 'news' as
well. Check them over and see if you get many 'Retrieving failed' messages.

-- 
Jim Hague - jim...@ac...          Never trust a computer you can't lift.