Re: [Pan-users] An article that crashes pan-0.14.0

[Duncan]

On Wed 16 Jul 2003 21:12, Himanshu J. Gohel posted as excerpted below:
> "Duncan" wrote:
> > FWIW, in a case such as this, you can generally mine the cache for the
> > message in question.  It should be under ~/.pan/data/ whatever.  Perhaps
> > the easiest way to find it from there would be to do a file search on
> > content.
>
> Hmmm.  The article still showed up in the header pane so I clicked on it.
> Pan crashed and I went to
> ~/.pan/data/Microsoft/microsoft.public.streets-trips.dat file and did a
> grep for the name, email and subject words, no luck.
>
> Let's say I was able to find the article in the .dat file, what could I do
> with it?  Can I extract or debug from that somehow?

I guess I didn't provide enough information.  The dat files just track read 
messages and etc.  They don't contain actual message content.  Therefore, you 
weren't looking in quite the right place.

I was trying to avoid going to disk and checking actual path, but..

Look in ~/.pan/data/messages/cache.  BE WARNED, that is the cache for ALL 
messages saved to disk from ALL groups on ALL servers, so it can get pretty 
big, both in terms of gigs, and in terms of number of files.  I suggest you 
open it with something fast like mc, NOT something that tries to get all the 
metadata and put pretty icons by each message file, like Konqueror, which 
could take nigh forever to open it if you have a multi-gig cache as I do.

In that dir each message is saved by its msgid, which is supposed to be 
globally unique (altho Forte Agent for instance at least used to use a random 
number I believe it was @ax.com or some such, so there is a possibility of 
msgid collision there, tho it's extremely unlikely with ordinary expiry 
times), so it makes a handy filename since there shouldn't be any namespace 
collisions.  Since you didn't know the msgid, however, that wouldn't help you 
directly, which is why I suggested a search by content for something that you 
DID know about the message, like author or subject header.

I've done this on occasion myself, so I know it works.

Make more sense, now?

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