From: John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: IMAP and IDLE...
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:11:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y63ttvmg.fsf@myles.home.wjsullivan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3oc4tzqmh.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
>
>> If you run g, wait for some new mail to arrive, and only then enter the
>> group, the new mail does not show. But, I bet, that unseen mail still
>> gets marked read (or otherwise modified) when you exit the group. And
>> thus appears to gnus to be old the next time you enter that group.
>
> It's possible... but Gnus only sends the marks delta to the server, so
> if Gnus doesn't know about message X, it won't send any data to the
> server about message X.
>
> I think.
That sounds like a credible explanation, but on the other hand, when
I've tried to reproduce it that way, I can't. I can definitely say that
not *all* of the unseen mail gets marked read that way.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-01 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-16 11:31 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-16 11:43 ` Greg Troxel
2011-03-16 13:46 ` Frank Schmitt
2011-03-16 13:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-16 13:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-16 14:37 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-17 18:08 ` Wes Hardaker
2011-03-17 18:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 20:52 ` Wes Hardaker
2011-03-17 21:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-18 8:51 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-18 14:36 ` Wes Hardaker
2011-03-18 16:00 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-19 0:28 ` Wes Hardaker
2011-03-21 10:57 ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-21 14:15 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-16 14:20 ` Olivier Sirven
2011-03-16 14:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-16 17:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-16 18:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 17:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 17:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 17:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 18:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-16 14:13 ` Olivier Sirven
2011-03-16 17:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-16 18:28 ` Olivier Sirven
2011-03-16 18:34 ` David Engster
2011-03-17 18:11 ` Wes Hardaker
2011-03-17 18:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 20:53 ` Wes Hardaker
2011-03-29 19:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-16 20:21 ` John Sullivan
2011-03-17 17:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 20:30 ` James Cloos
2011-03-29 19:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-04-01 23:11 ` John Sullivan [this message]
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