Re: Automatically marking Gcc's as SEEN in nnimap

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

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Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
> David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>
>> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>>>
>>> [ ... ]
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Is there a way to get messages
>>> that are marked as "read" in nnimap to also get marked as "seen" on the
>>> IMAP server?
>>
>> Do you use nnimap as your primary select method? If so, manually edit
>> your GCC header
>>
>>   Gcc: nnimap+imap.server.tld:INBOX.archive.whatever
>>
>> so that it just reads
>>
>>   Gcc: INBOX.archive.whatever
>>
>> Does it work now?
>>
>> -David
>
> Aha! Well, I have three nnimap select methods: one as my primary, and
> two others which are secondary. When I refer to archives on the primary
> server in the way you describe above, they are now indeed getting marked
> as SEEN at the same time they're getting marked as "read".

It seems there is a bug in gnus-msg.el when the gcc is going to the
primary back end. Without changing the GCC manually, does the following
patch fix this for you?


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diff --git a/lisp/gnus-msg.el b/lisp/gnus-msg.el
index 555b6a0..ce6fd3d 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus-msg.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus-msg.el
@@ -1624,6 +1624,8 @@ this is a reply."
 		  group (mm-encode-coding-string
 			 group
 			 (gnus-group-name-charset method group)))
+	    (when (gnus-native-method-p method)
+	      (setq group (gnus-group-short-name group)))
 	    (unless (gnus-check-server method)
 	      (error "Can't open server %s" (if (stringp method) method
 					      (car method))))

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> However, what can I do about the secondaries? Anything?

Secondary or foreign servers should work if you give a fully qualified
group name; at least it works for me with a nnimap server in the
secondary select methods. Also, 'read' marks in Gnus should directly
correspond to the SEEN flags on the IMAP server. If you activate the
IMAP logging, you should see stuff like

595 UID STORE 2987 +FLAGS (\Seen)

when you mark message as read (and -FLAGS if you remove the marks on a
message)

-David