Re: This bug is killing me!

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Robert,

>> ,----[ C-h v gnus-propagate-marks RET ]
>> | gnus-propagate-marks is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'.
>> | Its value is t
>> | Original value was nil
>> `----
>>
>> BTW: I think, that the default of this variable should be t nowadays,
>> where it's pretty common that people use different clients for
>> accessing their mail (Gnus on "real" computers, Whatever on their
>> phones, the web interfaces of their mail providers, etc.).
>
> I just tried setting that to true, and all the unread counts on my
> nntp groups (which I access only via Gnus), became wrong (as in much
> too high). Does this mean there is stale info in the backend that I
> need to regenerate or delete?

I don't have a clue.  But NNTP doesn't track marks at the server-side
anyway, so at least in theory, the value of that variable shouldn't have
any effect on newsgroups...

Did you change the value while gnus was running?  If so, maybe that had
some ill-effect...

And by the way: Lars changed the default for gnus-propagate-marks to t
with commit 4bf6dfbeba571f84b1da5c34d2423e3059814ccf on February, 16th,
but with his commit e5c3a381 on March, 5th it's back to nil again, but
instead an exception for IMAP is added to always propagate marks if the
server supports it.

So Lars, for what's gnus-propagate-marks good for now after this change?
IMAP is the only backend with server-marks anyway, isn't it?

And back to the original question.  Dave, what do you get when you
evaluate

  (gnus-method-option-p
    (gnus-find-method-for-group "nnimap+YourServer:INBOX")
    'server-marks)

If you get '(server-marks), then my guess that the problem is caused by
not propagating marks might be false (or some problem happens while
doing so...).

Bye,
Tassilo
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