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From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-sync: `gnus-newsrc-alist' modifications don't survive `M-g'
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:47:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762gmpj2q.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zke058rn.fsf@stories.gnus.org>

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
LMI> The variable that controls this is...  er...  `gnus-propagate-marks'?
>> 
>> Sorry, it's nil for me.

> D'oh!  I'm running with `nntp-marks-is-evil' set to t.  Gah.  I thought
> I had cleared out all customisations in this area...

> There's a fundamental difference between the marks stored in IMAP and
> the marks stored on the nntp backend.  The former is useful.  The
> latter just duplicates the information in the .newsrc.eld file
> locally, and isn't particularly.

Interesting.  I also (not unexpectedly) have the .marks files in all of
my gnusen.  These are possibly the cause for gnus-sync's (both the old
and the new) problems: ie. sometimes it updates the marks correctly,
sometimes it doesn't.

It could maybe also be the cause of gnus agent's obscure errors...?  But
if it is, it points to a potential issue: As you say, storing marks in
the backend is the right thing to do for nnimap.  And nnimap is also the
backend that would benefit the most from a working agent (at least for
me).




  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-08 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-25 12:42 Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-03 22:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-11-04 12:21   ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-03 23:08     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-07  1:36       ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-07  1:40         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-07  2:18           ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-07  2:23             ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-07  2:30               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-07  2:36                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-07  6:25                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-08 10:47                     ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2012-01-16 18:46                     ` Steinar Bang
2012-01-26 18:56                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-26 21:20                         ` Steinar Bang
2012-01-26 22:08                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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