Hi,
Thanks and it's very informative article.
But I don't want to download all headers, and I can live with missing some
posts. I don't read every one, after all.
But thanks for the information and I could use it if I wan to in the future.
"Pecos" <anortCutOutThe2on21@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> "Mark Bourne" <Mark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:OSts8UMjHHA.4248@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> xfile wrote:
>>> Just an interesting observation,
>>>
>>> On my desk, I have two systems running at the same time, an XP Pro
>>> notebook using OE6 and a LCD screen connected to a Vista desktop using
>>> Windows Mail, but when I read posts in the same newsgroup (e.g. this
>>> one), they are not exactly the same. A few are showing up in Windows
>>> Mail but not in OE, but if I search that particular post in OE, it is
>>> there just not showing up.
>>>
>>> I did refresh a few times to see if there are any difference but it's
>>> the same, and both are using the same sorting method - by date.
>>>
>>> Anyway, just an observation and don't know if anyone else also noticed.
>>>
>>
>> A couple of ideas to check. Apologies for not being particularly
>> specific - I don't actually use Windows Mail or OE6 myself.
>>
>> Some newsreaders have an option to download a maximum number of headers
>> at once (eg. mine will prompt me to download more than 500). It could be
>> that if there are more than that number of new messages, OE only
>> downloads the newest however many, and doesn't prompt to download the
>> rest. Maybe look for such an option in the newsgroup account settings in
>> OE? Something like "download at most (n) new messages"?
>>
>> If all new messages come up in both, but it's just some old ones that
>> don't show in OE, it could be that those are messages from before you
>> first set up the newsgroup on OE.
>
> I think Mark is on to the answer. Read this article I wrote at
> http://www.mindspring.com/~anorton1/Post_Mystery.html
> and see if it explains what you are seeing. There are instructions there
> as well for a workaround to the problem.
>
> Alan Norton
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