[Pan-users] Re: "Old" cached messages.

[Duncan]

Gleb Kulikov posted <address@hidden>, excerpted below,
 on Sun, 24 Aug 2003 01:18:46 +0700:

> I prefer to keep messagebases locally, so i set Pan's cache directory size
> to 500 M. But -- that was shoking for me -- when i start Pan in August, i
> "lost" all of the "old" messages from previous month. All cached messages
> was important, so that is a BIG trouble. As far as i can see when inspects
> cache directory manually, all of the "old" messages are in place. So can i
> see that in Pan?

PAN keeps messages as long as they fit in cache and as long as they remain
on your news server.  When the news server expires them, the next time you
sync PAN with the news server, PAN expires them as well.  That's probably
what you saw, tho it could also be something else like file corruption or
upgrading PAN to a version that stores the messages elsewhere than normal.

Note that there's an option in preferences to sync PAN at startup, or when
entering a group.  If you are like me and want to be sure all your
messages are processed b4 they get erased by a new sync, uncheck those
options so PAN only syncs when you tell it to, and then don't tell it to
until you have everything safely saved elsewhere that you want to keep and
that might be expired.

Here, I mail myself copies of messages I want to keep, on my normal news
server.  (Gmane, the mailing-list-2-news-server I am posting this to,
doesn't expire messages, so I don't have to worry about that here.) 
Otherwise, I save the message or attachment to disk.  PAN can then delete
the message from cache without me losing my copies.

BTW, PAN used to have a 1 GB limit on the cache size.  I was the one that
suggested it be upped, and have mine set for four gigs here now, tho I
normally run only two-ish.  I have it on a dedicated partition 8 gigs in
size, so I have plenty of room to grow it if I want.  FWIW, PAN's new
cache size limit is 20 gigs, which would be about appropriate for someone
following several movie groups or similar..  Of course, if one is only
following text groups, the PAN default of 10M or whatever it is might make
sense.

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