Hi, I am sorry.
>> and the C-h v gnus-fetch-old-headers value is nil ^^^^^ ^^^ This was from my box at home! and the one that misbehaved was the one that was at workplace. And indeed it had the same configuration error The erroneous behaviour was indeed because of (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers t) in the .gnus.el file Sorry for the noise. r -- (B.V. Raghav) _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english