Re: missing gnus-unseen-mark

[Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>]

This remains a problem for me: if I enter a group, and then leave it
without reading every new message (marked 'N'), and then re-enter, the
unread messages have no mark to differentiate them from read messages,
leading to missed mail. Can anyone suggest which aspects of my setup I
should review in order to get persistent marking of unread messages?
[nnimap with dovecot serving local maildirs populated by getmail]

Thanks a lot,

Dan


Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> I'm using dovecot with nnimap and local maildirs.
>
> I'd like a mark to remain by messages in the summary buffer until I have
> actually read them (presumably that would be gnus-unseen-mark).  When I
> enter a group, new messages have the 'N' mark (gnus-recent-mark) in the
> summary buffer. If I leave that group (without reading anything) and
> then re-enter, the 'N' mark has disappeared and is (often) not replaced
> by any mark. Actually I do sometimes get the '.' mark which aIui is
> gnus-unseen-mark, but by no means always.
>
> What should I do in order to reliably get a persistent gnus-unseen-mark
> next to messages until I have read them?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Dan
>
> Here's one possibly relevant variable setting:
>
> (setq gnus-summary-line-format
>       (concat
>        "%0{%U%R%z%}"
>        "%3{│%}" "%1{%d%}" "%3{│%}" ;; date
>        "  "
>        "%4{%-20,20f%}"               ;; name
>        "  "
>        "%3{│%}"
>        " "
>        "%1{%B%}"
>        "%s\n"))