From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68632 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Davison Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: missing gnus-unseen-mark Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:32:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87bpo4v2oq.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> References: <878wkjdi8t.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246462452 32394 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2009 15:34:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:34:12 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17059@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jul 01 17:34:05 2009 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 4.50) id 1MM1ow-0000xC-R6 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:34:03 +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 1MM1o0-0004w1-0y; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:33:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MM1ny-0004vn-RM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:33:02 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MM1ns-0000jL-Sn for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:33:02 -0500 Original-Received: from markov.stats.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.210.1]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MM1oP-00088Z-00 for ; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:33:29 +0200 Original-Received: from blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (blackcap.stats [163.1.210.5]) by markov.stats.ox.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n61FWtBV003572 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:32:55 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: by blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 5158) id 8FCA33201C; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:32:55 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <878wkjdi8t.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Dan Davison's message of "Tue, 26 May 2009 10:57:38 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68632 Archived-At: 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 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{=E2=94=82%}" "%1{%d%}" "%3{=E2=94=82%}" ;; date > " " > "%4{%-20,20f%}" ;; name > " " > "%3{=E2=94=82%}" > " " > "%1{%B%}" > "%s\n"))