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|    Stephen Walsh to Tommi Koivula    |
|    Pygate Timeout problem    |
|    01 Feb 26 13:43:34    |
      REPLY: 2:221/1.2 697dce7c       MSGID: 3:633/280 697ebe69       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: 1100       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-03-02              Hello Tommi!              31 Jan 26 11:38, you wrote to me:               TK> I see this kind of an issue when Pygate tries to fetch a message that        TK> do not exist at the news server. Article 1655389. Ok, fine. But after        TK> that it seems to skip all the rest messages and newsgroups as well.              [...]        TK> 31-Jan-26 11:21:06 - ERROR - Error fetching from finet.testi: cannot        TK> read from timed out object                     ### Version 1.5.10 (February 1, 2026)              #### Article Fetch Error Recovery       Fixed issue where a timeout fetching one article would cause all subsequent       articles       and newsgroups to fail with "cannot read from timed out object".              Detailed error logging: Now logs error type (timeout, connection error, etc.)       with newsgroup       context              Always update high water mark: Previously only updated when messages were       fetched successfully.       Now always updates to `end_article` to skip problematic articles on retry              Failed article tracking: Logs which article numbers failed for diagnostics              Example log output:       ```       ERROR - Timeout fetching article 1655389 from alt.usage.english: timed out       WARNING - Multiple connection errors, attempting reconnect to alt.usage.english       INFO - Reconnected successfully, continuing fetch from article 1655390       WARNING - Failed to fetch 1 article(s) from alt.usage.english: [1655389]       ```                            Stephen                     --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20250409        * Origin: Dragon's Lair ---:- dragon.vk3heg.net -:--- Prt: 6800 (3:633/280)       SEEN-BY: 105/81 106/201 128/187 129/14 305 153/7715 154/110 218/700       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 134 206 300 307 317 400 426 428       SEEN-BY: 229/470 616 664 700 705 266/512 280/464 291/111 292/854 320/219       SEEN-BY: 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/267 280 384 410 414 418       SEEN-BY: 633/420 422 509 2744 712/848 770/1 902/26 5075/35       PATH: 633/280 229/426           |
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