Re: nnimap problem solved by removing .agentview and .overview

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

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

>> So it does seem that if NNTP can be synced with the .marks files, and
>> IMAP groups don't need .newsrc.eld, then I can stop syncing .newsrc
>> and .newsrc.eld -- topic changes notwithstanding.
>
> Yup.

Nope, it turns out IMAP does not work properly without syncing
.newsrc. Today I sent all my marks files home, but did not send
.newsrc.eld along with them. When I connected to my nnimap servers at
home, the message counts in the Group buffer are all wrong. Well, sort
of; they count how many messages Gnus has not seen at home, not how
many of my IMAP messages are unread. My INBOX, for example, noted 8
new messages, but upon entering the group there were no new ones
there. I had read them all at work already.

Also, it looks like the expire mark is not synchronized. All of the
IMAP messages that arrived in my INBOX today at work were marked as
expirable (manually with 'E'), but none of those messages are marked
as expirable now at home. Is the expirable mark supposedly stored on
the server? If not, is .newsrc.eld the only place where expire marks
are stored?

-- 
Steven E. Harris