Re: [Pan-users] Re: Getting "all headers"

[Chris]

Thanks.  I'm going to look into this.  I would love to add the
features to Pan myself but I always seem to be in short supply of
time.  Hacking together something that works may be good enough.

CR


On 3/29/07, walt <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:35:11 -0400, Chris wrote:
>
> ...
> > Would it be possible to push the headers from another program?  In other
> > words update the file(s) in .pan2/groups/xxxx with new headers grabbed
> > using software that can do what I want?   I'm talking about something I
> > would write that could do this.
> >
> > I assume all I need is the format of the group files which seems to be
> > explained within the file itself.  Is this information accurate?
> >
> > Would there be any other files that need to be updated?
>
> There is a newsrc-N for each server you use.  These keep track of the
> articles by their number on server-N.
>
> >> The article expiration should work the same way.  Any headers that are
> >> no longer valid should be removed from the database.
> >>
> >> Can Pan already do this?
>
> No, and it's the one big new thing I'd love to see in pan.  I gather it's
> not trivial to add because of the multi-server nature of pan.  I'm sure
> it's doable -- by someone with more energy than I have :o)
>
>
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