nnimap syncing (was: Gnus slow?)

["Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com>]

Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:

> This means, you can read servers A, B, C at work and servers A, D, E
> at home and sync the marks files for A and then you'll get
> synchronization for that server between home and work.

I wish I could get this to work for my nnimap groups. I finally
convinced my ISP to enable user-defined flags, so "gnus-expire" or
whatever the expiry flag is shows up, but my expiry marks don't seem
to be recognized across different machines. That is, I see an nnimap
article at work, mark it as expirable, come home and connect to the
same server, and see that same article with no expiry mark.

We discussed this a few months ago¹, and at that time the advice was
twofold: stop syncing .newsrc.eld, and get user-defined flags enabled
on the IMAP server. I've done both, and still find the whole syncing
system to be a mess. After each sync, the agent remains confused as
ever.


Footnotes: 
¹ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58285

-- 
Steven E. Harris