Re: Showing threads with IMAP

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:

> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>
>>>>>>> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>:
>>
>>> I'm reading email via IMAP from Fastmail.fm. I have (setq
>>> gnus-fetch-old-headers t) set in my .gnus.el, but I never actually see
>>> any previously read messages ... only the unread ones. Is there any
>>> way to get this behavior with an IMAP server, so that I can see all
>>> the previous messages in a thread that has new, unread messages?
>>
>> 'A T' (gnus-summary-refer-thread) should do the trick.
>>
>> 'C-h f gnus-summary-refer-thread RET' for more info.
>>
>> However, on an IMAP server it only works when the server uses the
>> agent (I just tried).
>>
>> Also it didn't work on a message that didn't have a proper References
>> header (sent by Lookout using an MSExchange server).  Nothing
>> happened, presumably because dovecot didn't recognize the message as
>> belonging to a thread...?
>
> Thank you, Steiner. 'A T' works on this server, but I was hoping to have
> threads with unread messages automatically show up in the summary. I
> suppose I could live with having to recall them explicitly with 'A T'.
>
> Thank you.
> -pd

This is a bit of a guess, but does setting gnus-build-sparse-threads to
'more do what you what?