Re: Agent in batch mode for imap

Re: Agent in batch mode for imap

[Eric S Fraga]

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
 
[...] 
 
> - imap with splitting + gnus-agent : every unread mail on the 
> server 
>   gets a duplicate in the Summary buffer every time the agent 
>   fetchs when gnus runs unplugged. This duplicate disappears 
>   with C-g in the Summary buffer when running gnus plugged. 
>  
> Is there a reason why splitting shouldn't be used when agent 
> fetching ?  Are some of you successfully using the agent in this 
> manner ? 

I use gnus + agent + splitting with no problem.  The only 
difference I can see between what you are doing and what I do is 
that the final destination in the split rules, in my case, is 
*not* INBOX but another group ("general", in my case).  Maybe 
there is some confusion about splitting from INBOX into INBOX when 
the agent comes into play?

HTH,
eric

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Re: Agent in batch mode for imap

[Julien Cubizolles]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> I use gnus + agent + splitting with no problem.  The only difference I
> can see between what you are doing and what I do is that the final
> destination in the split rules, in my case, is *not* INBOX but another
> group ("general", in my case).  Maybe there is some confusion about
> splitting from INBOX into INBOX when the agent comes into play?

I came to the same conclusion by removing this last rule of
nnimap-fancy-split (the catchall "INBOX") altogether puts all non split
messages in a new group (named "UNKNOWN") and the agent doesn't show
duplicates in "INBOX" anymore.

I guess the agent confuses itself when it splits a message to the same
group it splitted it from and counts it twice. Looks like a bug ?

Re: Agent in batch mode for imap

[Eric S Fraga]

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> I guess the agent confuses itself when it splits a message to 
> the same group it splitted it from and counts it twice. Looks 
> like a bug ? 

Whether it's a bug or not, it is rather inefficient as you will be 
processing any such messages over and over again!  Seems cleaner 
to split to elsewhere regardless.

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Re: Agent in batch mode for imap

[Julien Cubizolles]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
>
>> I guess the agent confuses itself when it splits a message to the
>> same group it splitted it from and counts it twice. Looks like a
>> bug ? 
>
> Whether it's a bug or not, it is rather inefficient as you will be
> processing any such messages over and over again!  Seems cleaner to
> split to elsewhere regardless.

You're right, but I've been using this inefficient process for a while
now and only recently switched to running unplugged so It took me a
while to notice this behaviour.