Re: gnus nnmaildir and notmuch

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Thursday, 23 Mar 2017 at 15:25, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> To be honest, I just did a little testing, and I couldn't even get marks
>> to propagate: I flagged a message (the "real" backend was nnimap),
>> exited the group, and the flag wasn't there in the real group, nor in
>> the nnir group when I re-ran the search.
>
> I tend to warp to the article in the original group (A W) which then
> allows one to do whatever you want with it.  Not ideal, mind you.

Especially not ideal when nnir is set up to do mark propagation, and
there's no reason (that I can think of) why nnimap would want to be
exempt from that.

Ten minutes of edebugging was inconclusive; I'll try to find more time
to mess with it.

Ideally we could find some sort of solution to the OP's problem as well:
it seems like nnir groups are too ephemeral to allow you to update marks
from the real backend(s), but not ephemeral enough to be recreated from
scratch when the search is run a second time.

Eric