Phantom articles

[Russ Allbery]

Jan Ploski <wi342 at advm2.GM.FH-Koeln.DE> writes:

> I am experiencing a very strange (IMHO) behavior of innd. After a long
> period of not operating, I ran expire, which removed all articles from
> the spool directory (as expected). The trouble is that when I now start
> innd, it starts feeding me "phantom" articles. It goes like:

> inn:     IHAVE <dhnm6ss1fgdt7446q635d4ira8ch0uucsf at 4ax.com>
> my prog: 335 <cancel.4TF74.40581$43.56865 at dfw-read.news.verio.net>
> inn:     .

INN is trying to feed you a large backlog and all of the articles are
missing because they've expired.  Delete the backlog and it'll be fine.

(Ideally, INN should check whether an article is still present before
offering it.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>