From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64677 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: sluggish IMAP updating? Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 13:55:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87wsyyzb9p.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180007828 21359 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2007 11:57:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:57:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Greg Troxel Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13188@lists.math.uh.edu Thu May 24 13:57:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HrBwF-0003AP-FQ for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 13:57:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HrBuv-0002tT-Fr; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:55:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HrBut-0002tC-Jm for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:55:39 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HrBus-0003K0-Fv for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:55:39 -0500 Original-Received: from vinyl.extundo.com ([83.241.192.59]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1HrBuq-0000hC-00 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 13:55:36 +0200 Original-Received: from mocca.josefsson.org (38.177.241.83.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [83.241.177.38]) (authenticated bits=0) by vinyl.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id l4OBtUVt024213 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 24 May 2007 13:55:36 +0200 OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 1:22:070524:gdt@work.lexort.com::itJN/G3mhJUJ8iUf:1Rqt X-Hashcash: 1:22:070524:ding@gnus.org::m4BpYVrbL4o/MD6I:IK9m In-Reply-To: (Greg Troxel's message of "Wed\, 23 May 2007 13\:34\:18 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64677 Archived-At: Greg Troxel writes: > I use gnus (head of cvs) in emacs 21.4 on NetBSD 3.1ish and 4.0ish, with > my mail in IMAP via dovecot (1.0.0). I use gnome's mail-notification > and sometimes run thunderbird as well. Generally this works well. > > Typically when new mail arrives I'll notice because of mail-notification > (which is using IMAP's idle extension and thus notices new mail > promptly). I keep a gnus instance running all day, usually sitting in > the *Group* buffer, and I'll type 'g'. Usually INBOX will show new > messages, and selecting it will let me reaad them as you'd expect. > Fairly often (perhaps 1 in 4?), typing g will result in INBOX showing 0 > messages still. In these cases, entering the group, exiting it, and > then retyping 'g' will show non-zero messages and I can then enter and > read them. In these cases thunderbird shows new mail just fine. > > I know gnus doesn't push read marks back to the server until the group > is exited, and I wonder if there's some other kind of synchroniziation > issue. I'll enable imap logging and look at this, but I wanted to ask > if anyone else is seeing this, with dovecot, or with any other IMAP > server. Does toggling nnimap-need-unselect-to-notice-new-mail help? /Simon