Re: All non-marked messages unread

Re: All non-marked messages unread

[Eric S Fraga]

On Saturday, 10 Jan 2015 at 16:04, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I have a very strange problem. All messages from a certain folder that
> where not marked became unread. This where around 30.000 messages. I
> used ‘c’ (gnus-summary-catchup-and-exit) to mark them again as read.
>
> When entering the group again disaster has struck: there where only
> 4.000 messages (about 13%) left. All the others had disappeared.
>
> What has happened here?

I have no idea but I have had the same thing happen (in terms of
non-marked articles being made unread) 2 or 3 times in the past 2 years,
but only with IMAP to an MS Exchange Server and never with other IMAP
servers (just in an attempt to add a data point).  Incredibly
annoying.

In my case, I did not lose anything however but maybe this is due to
your expiry settings?

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Re: All non-marked messages unread

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>:

> I have no idea but I have had the same thing happen (in terms of
> non-marked articles being made unread) 2 or 3 times in the past 2 years,
> but only with IMAP to an MS Exchange Server and never with other IMAP
> servers (just in an attempt to add a data point).  Incredibly
> annoying.

With two gnusen open on the same group, the last one to quit the group
will win.  Could that be what was happening...?

Re: All non-marked messages unread

[Eric S Fraga]

On Monday, 12 Jan 2015 at 08:55, Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>:
>
>> I have no idea but I have had the same thing happen (in terms of
>> non-marked articles being made unread) 2 or 3 times in the past 2 years,
>> but only with IMAP to an MS Exchange Server and never with other IMAP
>> servers (just in an attempt to add a data point).  Incredibly
>> annoying.
>
> With two gnusen open on the same group, the last one to quit the group
> will win.  Could that be what was happening...?

not in my case; maybe relevant for the OP.  I never have more than one
gnus running at any time.

I personally think there's a problem (well, many) with MS Exchange...  I
wish I didn't have to use it but all attempts at local copies with
synchronisation (isync, offlineimap) have failed due to strange errors
with the server.

Anyway, not a problem.  I've learned to live with this and I have more
serious issues to address than the shortcomings of MS Exchange...  I
simply wanted to add a datat point for the OP's benefit.

thanks,
eric

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Re: All non-marked messages unread

[Adam Sjøgren]

Eric writes:

> I personally think there's a problem (well, many) with MS Exchange...  I
> wish I didn't have to use it but all attempts at local copies with
> synchronisation (isync, offlineimap) have failed due to strange errors
> with the server.

If you don't need to access your email from other clients, I can
recommend downloading the emails from MS Exchange, using IMAP as a fancy
POP3, and storing them locally (say, in nnml). That has worked without
problem for me the past 7+ years.


  Best regards,

    Adam, taking this even more off topic, and probably repeating myself...

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Re: All non-marked messages unread

[e.fraga]

On Monday, 12 Jan 2015 at 20:52, Adam Sjøgren wrote:

[...]

> If you don't need to access your email from other clients, I can
> recommend downloading the emails from MS Exchange, using IMAP as a fancy
> POP3, and storing them locally (say, in nnml). That has worked without
> problem for me the past 7+ years.

Yes, maybe this could be the ay to go.  I do access my mail from various
other devices but less so all the time as my portable linux devices
become more portable and more powerful....

thanks.
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