Re: gnus and imap

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> writes:
> Ok, what's going on in gnus-get-unread-articles: gnus-read-active-file-2
> is called for every group in retrieve-groups list. However, imap's group
> has no chance to be in retrieve-groups, because it falls into cond's
> branch '(and method (eq method-type 'foreign))'. I've tried it with
> nnimap as primary method also.

If you look at how method-type is set, you'll see that foreign servers
are those which are neither in gnus-select-method nor in
gnus-secondary-select-methods. So, I wouldn't know why this
happens.

You see that Gnus iterates through newsrc, which is
gnus-newsrc-alist. You can try it manually by first evaluating

(setq newsrc gnus-newsrc-alist)

and then do repeatedly

(progn
  (setq group (gnus-info-group (setq info (pop newsrc))))
  (setq method (gnus-info-method info))
  (cond 
    ((or (null method) (gnus-server-equal method gnus-select-method))
      (message "%s is primary" group))
    ((gnus-secondary-method-p method)
      (message "%s is secondary" group))
    (t (message "%s is foreign" group))))

which will show you in what category each group falls into. For any
method in gnus-select-method or gnus-secondary-select-methods you should
get primary or secondary, resp. If not, something strange happened to
your setup. Foreign groups are usually those to which you subscribed to
using gnus-group-browse-foreign-server.

-David