From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: That newfangled IMAP thing...
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:30:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tylscph8.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hbhscqel.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:10:10 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LMI> But here's what I can't quite wrap my head around: When do you sync
LMI> these, and when don't you?
LMI> To take an example: You're using the FooIMAP server, which doesn't have
LMI> "*" in the PERMANENTFLAGS, so you don't store the Gnus flags. Then
LMI> somebody upgrades FooIMAP, and then "*" arrives in PERMANENTFLAGS. Now
LMI> we want to sync the extra flags, too. Since, naturally, the first time
LMI> you use it after the upgrade, there's no gnus-* flags on the server, so
LMI> nnimap deletes all your local flags.
LMI> That's not very nice behaviour.
LMI> So... nnimap has to store whether the group supports uploading flags.
LMI> If that status changes from "" to "*", then nnimap has to upload the
LMI> extra flags for all the articles. Or something. It seems somewhat
LMI> fragile.
This is so rare I wouldn't worry about it. But you could make a special
case of "the server has NO flags BUT you have many AND you're
about to lose them" which would require yes-or-no confirmation. I had
the same concerns with gnus-sync.el, which is why I plan to give it a UI
and much better merge logic.
Ted
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2010-09-05 1:04 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 1:12 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-05 11:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 11:44 ` Sebastian Krause
2010-09-05 12:00 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-05 13:16 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-05 19:58 ` James Cloos
2010-09-06 7:17 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-09-07 14:15 ` Wes Hardaker
2010-09-07 14:52 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-07 17:56 ` Wes Hardaker
2010-12-05 12:33 ` Matthias Andree
2010-09-05 1:56 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-05 2:17 ` Tibor Simko
2010-09-05 2:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-05 7:18 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-05 11:00 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-09-05 13:31 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-05 11:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 13:22 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-05 13:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 13:43 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-05 17:26 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-09-05 17:30 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-09-06 9:05 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-09-06 15:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-06 15:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-09 14:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-09 14:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-09 15:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-05 17:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 10:55 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-09-05 13:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 17:07 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-09-05 17:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 17:30 ` Memnon Anon
2010-09-06 7:41 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-09-27 23:16 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-09-29 14:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-29 19:19 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-12-02 12:03 ` [PATCH] nnimap.el (nnimap-process-expiry-targets): avoid downloading articles unless necessary Bjørn Mork
2010-12-02 12:17 ` expiry taking "forever" in both cpu time and real time when the IMAP UID is high Bjørn Mork
2010-12-02 12:59 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-12-02 13:28 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-12-05 12:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-11-06 22:24 ` slow nnimap expiry (dubious patch) John Magorrian
2012-01-03 22:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-13 8:56 ` Bjørn Mork
2012-02-13 19:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-13 20:48 ` Bjørn Mork
2012-02-26 14:27 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-03-10 0:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-10 18:16 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-03-10 19:57 ` John Magorrian
2010-12-05 12:16 ` [PATCH] nnimap.el (nnimap-process-expiry-targets): avoid downloading articles unless necessary Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 12:43 ` That newfangled IMAP thing Greg Troxel
2010-09-05 12:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 13:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 13:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 13:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 13:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 14:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 14:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 14:49 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-05 16:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 17:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 17:47 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-05 17:49 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-06 12:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-09 12:55 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-09 13:55 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-09-09 13:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-09 14:26 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-09 17:14 ` Sebastian Krause
2010-09-10 23:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-10 23:53 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2010-09-11 0:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-11 0:16 ` Greg Troxel
2010-09-11 0:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-11 3:42 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-11 11:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-11 11:47 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-11 15:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-11 17:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-11 17:30 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-11 17:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-12 8:38 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-12 9:24 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-12 9:53 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-12 11:12 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-12 13:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-12 15:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-12 15:40 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-12 16:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-12 16:56 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-12 17:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-12 17:26 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-12 17:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-12 19:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-12 20:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-13 4:28 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-12 17:24 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-13 10:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-13 4:26 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-13 9:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-13 9:49 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-13 9:57 ` David Edmondson
2010-09-13 10:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-13 9:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-13 10:07 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-13 10:24 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-13 11:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-13 11:54 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-13 12:20 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-11 20:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-12 2:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-12 8:32 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-12 13:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-13 4:24 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-13 10:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
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2010-09-13 21:43 ` Knut Anders Hatlen
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2010-09-13 22:14 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-13 22:54 ` Dan Christensen
2010-09-14 7:19 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-14 15:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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2010-09-14 20:49 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-15 6:05 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-15 7:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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2010-09-12 2:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-06 15:23 ` Dan Christensen
2010-09-06 20:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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2010-09-06 21:27 ` Steinar Bang
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2010-09-07 7:17 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-07 14:57 ` Bjørn Mork
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2010-09-08 21:26 ` Wes Hardaker
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2010-09-05 16:01 ` David Engster
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2010-09-05 16:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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2010-09-06 12:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
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2010-09-06 13:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
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2010-09-05 20:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-05 14:44 ` Tom Rauchenwald
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2010-09-06 13:39 ` Romain Francoise
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