Re: Emacs 28.2 gnus: nntp read marks lost after going offline and online again

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:
>
>> I have now removed these gnus-demon settings (from May 26 2003):
>
>> ;; Automatically fetch news and mail every 15 minutes when idle
>> (defun sb-gnus-demon-scan-imap ()
>>   (let ((win (current-window-configuration)))
>>     (unwind-protect
>> 	(save-window-excursion
>> 	  (save-excursion
>> 	    (when (gnus-alive-p)
>> 	      (save-excursion
>> 		(set-buffer gnus-group-buffer)
>> 		(gnus-group-get-new-news 2)))))
>>       (set-window-configuration win))))
>
> The culprit was my May 26 2003 function above.
>
> I ran sb-gnus-demon-scan-imap by putting
>  (sb-gnus-demon-scan-imap)
> in the minibuffer and typing Ctrl-J.
>
> And the nntp groups and read marks went away.
>
> I can't entirely remember why I wrote my own function here (it's been a
> while...), but I think at that time I had nnml groups on level 1 and
> nnimap groups on level 2 and nntp groups on level 3, and that I was
> trying to scan only level 1 and level2 in the demon.

I'm glad you worked it out, and sorry for maligning Gnus cloud!

I guess with a few decades of personal config, some of it is bound to go stale...