From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68280 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Disallow using agent with nnimap Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:40:58 -0600 Message-ID: <4992108A.1080706@compsol.cc> References: <87iqnj22mp.fsf@CPU107.opentrends.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234309337 5424 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2009 23:42:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:42:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Daniel Clemente Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16720@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Feb 11 00:43:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LX2GJ-0002fY-Og for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:43:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LX2ET-0004jQ-B5; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:41:37 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LX2ER-0004iz-BX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:41:35 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LX2EO-0000n8-Gi for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:41:35 -0600 Original-Received: from smtp111.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.210]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LX2Ei-0007TL-00 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:41:52 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 83552 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2009 23:41:00 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.69?) (kevin.greiner@70.139.184.235 with plain) by smtp111.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2009 23:40:59 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: QCFSBG8VM1n8knSDlOM1mloGOAUTceW9Jd7.bIv.pFVVm3n1.LBzxrH1VDC8OP3Wzo.vXCNrjx.BE3wh1PzAfE29OGJ0sCrZ1LWqufLlz3yFfdS1AemvEPMpP9ofDtvHrZQ7L.Qr5OlJb_bg0H4tMlct X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: <87iqnj22mp.fsf@CPU107.opentrends.net> X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68280 Archived-At: Daniel Clemente wrote: > Hi, > we all know that gnus-agent creates lots of problems with nnimap backends. Not only wrong count numbers, but also you can apparently lose unread e-mails when you enter a group (and then you don't see them again even with C-u M-g). > This makes the innocent user angry. I would like that users are not required to remember that nnimap+agent=chaos, but that Gnus remembers this to the user in case it is needed (i.e. when enabling it). > > Could we add some sort of warning or confirmation to avoid enabling nnimap+agent by mistake? > > At least until it is fixed. > > -- Daniel > > > > > The agent should work fine with nnimap when the user has only one mail client (gnus). The problems that you listed occur when the user tries to access the same email account using multiple copies of gnus or gnus and some other email application. For example, when you try to access the same email account from your work and home computers. Kevin