From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79733 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP + Agent Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:36:53 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <8739gqlt2i.fsf@dod.no> References: <874o17p3vv.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de> <73y5yjnijn.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <87ty96dg0z.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314200461 7038 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2011 15:41:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:41:01 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28027@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 24 17:40:57 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QwFZY-0000la-Jk for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:40:56 +0200 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 1QwFYv-0006K2-MQ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:40:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QwFYu-0006Jv-Q5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:40:16 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QwFYt-0004cI-UI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:40:16 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QwFYs-00031b-Ij for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:40:14 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QwFYo-0000LL-2x for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:40:10 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.226.30.getinternet.no ([84.208.226.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:40:10 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.226.30.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:40:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.226.30.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0+wuUgh0ySG99iJupCRNiKMOGMs= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79733 Archived-At: >>>>> Eric S Fraga : > Well, IMAP + Gnus agents work for me, with the following caveats: > 1. I only have one account per imap server and > 2. when I want to update the agent (J s), I quit gnus, restart it and > then download. > The second point is critical, in my experience. If I have done > anything with gnus (reading, expiring, whatever), then the agent gets > confused. I cannot reproduce the problems at will but ever since I > started doing the download *only* immediately after starting gnus, > everything has worked fine. Well interesting... and might help the ones trying to debug this... But as a workaround it (ie. your second point) feels to me, like being too cumbersome, to use in practice.