From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72670 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Returning to ticks on read-only imap servers Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:25:22 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87eic4jsjx.fsf@dod.no> References: <87eic45u1n.fsf@maru.md5i.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286310343 24082 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2010 20:25:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:25:43 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21042@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 05 22:25:41 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 1P3E4u-0001wm-9f for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:25:36 +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 1P3E4t-00038Z-8T; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:25:35 -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 1P3E4r-00038D-Oy for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:25:33 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P3E4q-0002jC-0n for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:25:33 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P3E4p-0004d4-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:25:31 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3E4n-0001tX-Da for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:25:29 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.204.33.getinternet.no ([84.208.204.33]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:25:29 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.204.33.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:25:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.204.33.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:npSxNQcf79SA3AMqtAjXyjeozxI= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72670 Archived-At: >>>>> 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... > 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)...?