When sampling by date, Agent appears to get all headers. Why?
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:33:46 +1200, Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> wrote: > Folder -> Default Properties -> Receiving Messages -> Usenet Messages > [x] Limit number of headers retrieved per session to: [_________] > >Or to set a different number for each group > > (*select group*) -> Folder -> Properties -> Receiving Messages -> Usenet Messages > [x] Limit number of headers retrieved per session to: [_________] Ok thanks to you and pete for the replies. I’ll try this and see if it works. Otherwise I guess I will have to just wait for the headers.
If you sample by number of days, Agent does indeed get a list of all available messages, keeping only those newer than the given date. There is a server command, NEWNEWS, that returns a list of messages newer than a given date. There are two reasons we don’t use the NEWNEWS command. One is that it returns a list of message-IDs rather than the server-assigned article number. Agent would then have to request each message by message-ID, which would be very slow. So, the method we use should generally be much faster. The other is that not all servers support it. This FAQ Entry was updated on 11.04.08, please give us your feedback.
