Bug 118382

Summary:	I'd like a "Get more articles" button in Knode
Product:	[Unmaintained] knode	Reporter:	Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
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Description Andrew Kohlsmith 2005-12-15 15:49:19 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

Currently it is impossible to get more (older) articles from a news server without unsubscribing, changing your news server global expiry settings and resubscribing.  This of course erases all your read/unread and important metadata.

This is important when you normally don't want a huge backlog of message headers but need to search old articles.  If I could say "Get More Articles from this group" then I could pull some (configurable?) older messages.  Of course, messages marked important or watched threads should never be expired, even if they're older than what the expiry would normally remove.

Comment 1 Andrew Kohlsmith 2005-12-15 15:50:20 UTC

example news server news.cadsoft.de.  It has messages going back to 2001, but it's simply not possible to get at these older messages without jumping through a lot of hoops in knode, and of course trashing all your message metadata.  :-(

Comment 2 Volker Krause 2006-12-05 16:53:22 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40878 ***