Re: [Workaround/Solved] This bug is killing me!

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

>>>> BTW: I think, that the default of this variable should be t
>>>> nowadays,
>>
>> Mark propagation is not universally supported.  
>
> By what? (not challenging; just not understanding yet).

By backends: Server-side marks are something that's basically only
supported by IMAP (and thus the nnimap backend).

>> Setting it to t would certainly break things here.
>
> Where; what things?

I don't know the answer but have another question: if it would break
things, why is it a defcustom then?  And if only nnimap supports mark
propagation, and the code already has an exception to enable MP for IMAP
servers (*), why do we have that variable anyway?

(*) ... which doesn't seem to work for Dave ...

>> Gnus needs to work correcly with gnus-propagate-marks nil.
>
> Perhaps so.  Can you define what "correctly" means in this case?

Marks should be propagated to your IMAP server, no matter the value of
that variable.  And what we've discovered so far is that this seems to
happen when you mark an article and then exit the summary, while the
mark is lost when you hit M-g, thus updating the summary without exiting
it.

Well, that's at least some perimeter of the issue.  I have no clue about
all that backend code, but hopefully someone who has is helped on with
it.

Bye,
Tassilo
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