Re: Expiry problems...

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 05:45:23PM +0100, Kai Großjohann wrote:
> John S Cooper <John.Cooper@citrix.com> writes:
> 
> > However, since switching to nnimap, I now notice that many articles
> > which should have been expired (marked E and older than 7 days) are
> > now displayed with the ancient "O" mark when I enter the group with
> > a prefix argument.
> 
> What happens when you try to view them?  If that produces an error and
> the article isn't there, then you have hit the overview cache problem:
> nnimap caches overview entries on the local disk, but the cache isn't
> cleaned of old entries.
> 
> Every once in a while, you could delete the overview cache.

I know this isn't the ding list (I set replies to ding) but it was too
close to something similar with the way gnus-agent handles messages
under agent-unplugged when the message is not downloaded. The summary
info is there and present in .overview, but no actual file exists. Is
this cached somewhere too?

Can that be deleted somehow too?  And what or where is the "overview
cache"?