Re: HEADS UP: Largely rewritten gnus-agent implementation.

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Danny Siu <dsiu@adobe.com> writes:

> I am only using nnnil as primary and nnimap as secondary backend.  I
> removed all .fetched files, did a 'gnus-agent-regenerate', and 'J s'
>
> - gnus-agent-regenerate seems to do the right finally: it recreates
>   .agentview based on articles that have already been download on disk. This
>   alone saved me hours of agent refetching time!  Thanks for making this
>   works.

Yes, thanks a lot, Kevin.

> - i have (setq gnus-agent-mark-unread-after-downloaded nil) but sometimes
>   articles are marked read ('O') after being splitted to the its destination
>   group.

I don't notice this.  I use splitting with nnimap and I have the same
setting, but split articles are not marked as read.

I have seen mark-as-read when entering a group, but I fixed that as I
described.

> - .agentview files may contain bogus info, like "nil 2" etc.  (or it has a
>   new format now?)

nil means it's empty, 2 means it's in format 2.  Yes, Kevin has
introduced a new format.  The new format supports ranges and also
includes the history file information, so that the history file is
not needed anymore.

> - i am seeing all my dormanted articles became read (marked 'O')!!!  I know
>   that nnimap stores gnus specific marks, like dormant, on IMAP servers that
>   support custom marks.  this is a major problem for agent right now.

I use dormant articles rarely.  Let me test this with an nnimap group.

> thanks for the good work, Kevin and Kai!

My work consisted of writing the ChangeLog entry.  Kudos to Kevin,
not to me.

kai
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