From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72673 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welsh Duggan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Returning to ticks on read-only imap servers Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:01:45 -0400 Message-ID: <87aams5p6u.fsf@maru.md5i.com> References: <87eic45u1n.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <87eic4jsjx.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286312549 1709 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2010 21:02:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 21:02:29 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21045@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 05 23:02:28 2010 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 1P3Eea-0003h9-HW for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:02:28 +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 1P3EeS-0003Pe-Af; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:02:20 -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 1P3EeR-0003PN-78 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P3EeP-0002tL-Th for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from md5i.com ([75.151.244.229] helo=maru.md5i.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P3EeP-00056K-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:02:17 +0200 Original-Received: from md5i by maru.md5i.com with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P3Edt-0001YC-9E for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:01:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87eic4jsjx.fsf@dod.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:25:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72673 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>> Michael Welsh Duggan : > >> I'd like to revisit the issue of ticks on read-only nnimap servers. > > My personal opinion is that read-only nnimap servers isn't such a hot > idea. NNTP access to whatever would have been better. > > However... Yeah. This used to be a server with read/write access to personal groups, and read-only access to public groups. Then for some reason *cough* government clients *cough* our personal mail stuff got switched to the-never-to-be-damned-enough Exchange. >> I need non-seen ticks to be handled by the client on this server. > > ...a fallback to storing ticks in the .newsrc.eld is probably the > expected behaviour (ie. if things are to work as transparently across > backends as possible)...? I agree that this is probably the correct fallback. -- Michael Welsh Duggan (md5i@md5i.com)