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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: want zombie nnimap groups!
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 17:19:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200005041519.RAA04775@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "03 May 2000 19:05:43 +0200"

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> nnimap can't tell if a group is "new" or not, since IMAP mailboxes
> does not have creation dates attached to them, as nntp have.  Listing
> all mailboxes and comparing with a old list wouldn't work either,
> mailbox lists can be infinite in IMAP.

Hm.  If gnus-save-killed-list is non-nil, Gnus would in principle be
able to find that out, wouldn't it?  I know nothing about the guts of
Gnus, though, so maybe something there prevents the functionality from
working...

FWIW, I do use Cyrus, so I'll be happy with something which works
there :-)

kai
-- 
Beware of flying birch trees.



  reply	other threads:[~2000-05-04 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-04-28 16:43 Kai Großjohann
2000-05-03 17:05 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-05-04 15:19   ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2000-08-12 18:22   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-08-12 22:08     ` simon
2000-08-13 16:14       ` Kai Großjohann

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