From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60411221923213554b7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:23:24 -0800 From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] gmail's new POP features + upas/fs In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Cc: russcox@gmail.com Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0a0d734e-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:14:18 -0700, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > > > perhaps you've told gmail to delete > > messages once pop downloads them. > > (it's a gmail settings option in the pop section.) > > the next time upas/fs logs in and looks > > at your mail, they're not there, so it assumes > > they've been deleted and forgets about them. > > > > russ > > i had them on archive first, then changed to 'leave in inbox'. gmail > indicates that they're sending a 'copy to pop3', so don't think that's > to blame. > > here's what i do: > > - kill all 'fs' in the current session, even better -- start a > new one with drawterm and without starting upas/fs. > > - upas/fs -s -f/..../ > > - mount /srv/upasfs.andrey and start acme Mail on that dir > > - send a message to myself on my gmail account > > - when the message appears in acme either do a new mount of > /srv/upasfs... or wait about a minute and the message will be > marked as 'deleted' in the old Mail. it never appears in the > new one. > > exiting the original acme mail and restarting it doesn't show the > message either, even though Mail wouldn't really delete the message > unless its window has been 'Put'. > > i can verify that this problem doesn't exist with imaps and imap on > other accounts i have. > > andrey > > Andrey, I am sitting here watching faces and I got your race... I just got one of russco on my machine too... and now it vanished... It must take things that are in a regular inbox and move them to some other directory? quite weird :). Perhaps Rob Pike can save us :) Dave