Re: IMAP + Agent

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:15:00 +0200 Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net> wrote: 

FS> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>>>>>> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>:
>> 
>>> ... Since Gnus started being much more efficient with Gnus I moved to
>>> a Gnus "native" IMAP connection but would really like it to play
>>> properly with the agent.
>> 
>> So would I.
>> 
>> The old nnimap and the agent used to work, more or less.  I even had
>> cache-when-read working.

FS> No way. In the days when I was more active in #gnus and the Gnus
FS> Newsgroup, 50% of all IMAP related problems could be solved by disabling
FS> the Agent.

Unfortunately that was the case for me too.  The last non-Lars
non-trivial commit to gnus-agent.el is from Reiner, who for a while did
tremendous work on the Agent and other parts of Gnus:

commit 45b6a0b12b2a982c66908683a23f60c8e8d8212f
Author: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
Date:   Wed Nov 28 20:32:49 2007 +0000

so perhaps it makes sense to ask Reiner if he can understand what's
broken and needs to be fixed in the agent, since Lars (IIRC) said he
needs to understand that code much better to work on it.

Ted