Re: ticks, marks, flags (gmail starred)

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> I connect via imap to my gmail account using gnus.
> Usually I use !  `gnus-summary-tick-article-forward'
> and M-u to untick the messages. 
>
> A ticked message  understood by gmail as starred and by thunderbird as
> flagged. 
>
> What puzzles me is the gnus `u'
> which sets the * mark. 

If you have gnus-use-cache set to t, then when you tick an article, 
it is also cached, which is indicated with a * mark.  Depending on
your gnus-summary-line-format variable, you might only see the *
mark when the tick mark is removed.

Also, when you mark an article as read, it will be removed from the
cache when you exit the group, but the * mark still shows until then.
Most marks show what *will* happen when you exit the summary, but for a
reason I've never understood, the * mark shows the current state
(cached) and some other mechanism results in it getting removed when you
exit the group.

So I think all you have to do is ignore this.  The * should be gone the
next time you enter that group.

It can also be removed with M-*.

See the Article Caching section of the Gnus info page.

Dan