gnus: Agent Regeneration
6.9.7 Agent Regeneration
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The local data structures used by ‘nnagent’ may become corrupted due to
certain exceptional conditions. When this happens, ‘nnagent’
functionality may degrade or even fail. The solution to this problem is
to repair the local data structures by removing all internal
inconsistencies.
For example, if your connection to your server is lost while
downloaded articles into the agent, the local data structures will not
know about articles successfully downloaded prior to the connection
failure. Running ‘gnus-agent-regenerate’ or
‘gnus-agent-regenerate-group’ will update the data structures such that
you don’t need to download these articles a second time.
The command ‘gnus-agent-regenerate’ will perform
‘gnus-agent-regenerate-group’ on every agentized group. While you can
run ‘gnus-agent-regenerate’ in any buffer, it is strongly recommended
that you first close all summary buffers.
The command ‘gnus-agent-regenerate-group’ uses the local copies of
individual articles to repair the local NOV(header) database. It then
updates the internal data structures that document which articles are
stored locally. An optional argument will mark articles in the agent as
unread.
Info Catalog
gnus: Agent Expiry
gnus: Gnus Unplugged
gnus: Agent and flags