Re: [Pan-users] Proper behavior of "backup" servers? [DIAGNOSED]

[Heinrich Müller]

Am Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:51:18 +0000 schrieb walt:

> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:29:41 +0000, walt wrote:
> 
>> I discovered that setting gmane.org to "backup server" prevents pan from
>> ever asking gmane for articles that I click on in the header pane.
> 
> The reason pan was refusing to fetch articles from gmane.org is that I had
> another server set as "primary" AND set to zero connections.
> 
> I think pan was waiting for that primary server to ask for the article
> first -- but of course pan couldn't ask the primary server because its 
> number of connections was set to zero.  Setting that primary server to 
> "fallback" allowed pan to query all the other fallback servers, including
> gmane.
> 
> This isn't exactly a bug, but the behavior is unexpected.  Maybe pan
> should refuse to set a primary server to zero connections?  Or at least
> give us a warning?

I'll implement 1 as the minimum for the spinner, good idea.