From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81813 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: General questions regarding the Agent and IMAP Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:05:28 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87k40zx2nr.fsf@dod.no> References: <87fwbom70i.fsf@free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335629164 25051 80.91.229.3 (28 Apr 2012 16:06:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:06:04 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30085@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Apr 28 18:06:03 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SOA9p-0001Zn-S6 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:06:02 +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 1SOA9a-0008Vt-O1; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:05:46 -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 1SOA9Y-0008VY-Mr for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:05:44 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SOA9W-0000rl-SY for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:05:44 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SOA9U-0006J9-Rl for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:05:40 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SOA9S-0001Gw-Bw for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:05:38 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no ([84.208.231.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:05:38 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:05:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NE1Nng9HKigjD5RUB4ugmP/oR4Q= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81813 Archived-At: >>>>> Julien Cubizolles : > I'm confused by some aspects of using the Agent and IMAP. Ah... that combination is buggy. See old messages on this list. The funniest effect is when the cached article is replaced with a file containing NOV data. > The articles I choose to fetch from the IMAP server with the agent exist > both on the server and as a local copy on my machine, right ? Yep. > If such an article is marked for expiry, is it deleted both on the local > copy and on the remote IMAP server ? I don't think so. If you delete it while offline I don't think it is deleted on the server. And deleting on the server doesn't clear the agent cached version, or at least I think it doesn't...? (at least it didn't do so back in 2001 or thereabuts. > Also, I noticed that every time I hit g in the Group buffer, a new copy > of *every* unread and unfetched message on the IMAP server is added in > the Summary, what could be the cause ? Bugs, possibly...? > Finally, the total message count is completely wrong for the IMAP server > if I'm using the agent but that's not too inconvenient. Another possible bug...? Actually, after trying to debug the agent several times and eventually giving up, I'm wondering if that isn't a candidate for just a severe rewrite as the nnimap backend...?