Mail unread : imap

Mail unread : imap

[Richard Riley]

Has something changed recently which would alter the read status of
mail?

My gnus email is read in gnus, my imap applet reports they are read and
then offlineimap or something sees them as unread again - and gnus sees
them them as unread once more.

(gnus<->localdovecot<->offlineimap<->gmail)

The setup has worked fine (except for nnml) for ages and this only
started today after a gnus git pull.

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Re: Mail unread : imap

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> Has something changed recently which would alter the read status of
> mail?
>
> My gnus email is read in gnus, my imap applet reports they are read and
> then offlineimap or something sees them as unread again - and gnus sees
> them them as unread once more.
>
> (gnus<->localdovecot<->offlineimap<->gmail)

Huh.  Another marks problem involving offlineimap.  Does offlineimap
expect anything special in relation to other IMAP servers?

> The setup has worked fine (except for nnml) for ages and this only
> started today after a gnus git pull.

Was this the first time you've used the new nnimap?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Mail unread : imap

[Dan Christensen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Huh.  Another marks problem involving offlineimap.  Does offlineimap
> expect anything special in relation to other IMAP servers?

Offlineimap does not sync any of the custom flags that Gnus uses
(unless you patch it to do so).

Dan

Re: Mail unread : imap

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> Offlineimap does not sync any of the custom flags that Gnus uses
> (unless you patch it to do so).

Hm.  Well, that sucks, but \Seen marks shouldn't go AWOL...

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Mail unread : imap

[Philipp Haselwarter]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Huh.  Another marks problem involving offlineimap.  Does offlineimap
>> expect anything special in relation to other IMAP servers?
>
> Offlineimap does not sync any of the custom flags that Gnus uses
> (unless you patch it to do so).
>
> Dan

Reminded me of something I stumbled over not so long ago, seems to do
just that (haven't tried it myself):

http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html


-- 
Philipp Haselwarter

Re: Mail unread : imap

[Dan Christensen]

Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de> writes:

> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> Offlineimap does not sync any of the custom flags that Gnus uses
>> (unless you patch it to do so).
>
> Reminded me of something I stumbled over not so long ago, seems to do
> just that (haven't tried it myself):
>
> http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html

Thanks, that's good too have in the archive.  Once a patch I've
submitted to offlineimap is generally available, it'll be even easier 
for users to get this to work.

While we're on the topic:  has anyone started using dsync to synchronize
two dovecot servers?  It should be able to be faster and handle all
flags, but I haven't tried it yet.

Dan