Re: Messages still being marked as old in nnimap

[John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net>]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> writes:
>
>> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>>
>>> John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> every now and then, a bunch of unread messages get marked O,
>>>> effectively vanishing from my sight. This is very bad.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if it's the same problem, but I frequently lose all of my
>>> expirable marks in nnimap groups.  Those are usually the only marks
>>> there are, so it could be related to what you see.  But I think unread
>>> articles stay unread for me.
>>
>> What do you mean by "expirable marks"? Maybe I've noticed the same
>> thing -- articles that I'd expect to be marked with E, because they are
>> in a group where all read articles are supposed to be expired, are
>> marked with O instead. (While some others in the same group are still
>> marked with E.)
>
> That's what I mean: articles marked with "E".  I often lose them all.
> And I forgot to mention in my reply above that this doesn't only happen
> for nnimap, it also happens for nnfolder.

You're not by chance also an offlineimap user, are you? 

It occurs to me that it's possible this isn't a problem in gnus, but a
problem in offlineimap. I doubt that because I don't think I've noticed
these issues in other mail clients talking to the same servers, but it's
also still a possibility, since I do use those other clients much less
frequently than gnus. I also wouldn't think that offlineimap would have
anything to do with the expirable marks, but I also don't know much.

(I use offlineimap to sync between a local dovecot and a remote dovecot
and courier.)

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