Re: nnimap, marks and agent leftovers

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>:

> I have learned that nnimap and agent don't mix.  It makes all sorts of
> weird things happening, and sometimes hides mail to the degree that I
> haven't yet found a way to display it using Gnus with agent.

What happens, are:
 - Sometimes the wrong article is cached
 - Sometimes a piece of NOV data is cached instead of the article 

Unfortunately I haven't been able to reproduce _when_ this happens.

I've tried debugging the agent caching in nnimap with the new nnimap
backend (the attempts are somewhere in this group).

> So I don't use agent for my nnimap servers anymore.

Note: all of these issues appeared when agent met the new nnimap backend
(which I love for its speed)

I think maybe the agent should be a candidate for a full rewrite....?

Not something I can step up to volunteer for myself, unfortunately.

[snip!]
> used agent on these servers!  Looks like Gnus found the ancient data
> under ~/News/agent/nnimap/ and used it, even though the servers were
> not agentized (they are not listed in ~/News/agent/lib/servers).

This has always been the case, I think. Not something that appeared with
the new nnimap backend.

> So my advice is:  Don't just disabe agent on nnimap servers, but be sure
> to delete/move all data from ~/News/agent/nnimap/ as well!

Quite possibly.

Note that when the agent caches the wrong stuff, deleting the wrongly
cached article under ~/News/agent/nnimap/ is enough to fix the issue
with strange behaviour.

Having to do so at all, is kind of annoying, though...