Re: Article 12345 unavailable: numbers not in sync

On Tuesday 20 November 2007 08:02:22 Martin Trautmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since there's much more activity within the slrn development again, I'd
> like to ask for another improvement.
>
> I do use a flawed news server setup here. slrn tells me many times:
>
>    Article NUMBER unavailable
>
> This might indicate that the article is no longer kept on this server.
> But that's not true.

Does this help?

http://www.slrn.org/manual/slrn-manual-6.html#ss6.7

| 6.7 broken_xref 
| Type: integer
| Default: 0
| When you set this variable to a non-zero value, slrn requests articles by
| Message-ID instead of header number. This provides support for servers with
| broken ``Xref:'' headers and should otherwise be left untouched.  

% add to .slrnrc:
set broken_xref 1

-- 
PJR :-)

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