From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71266 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: More IMAP testing, please Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:10:11 -0400 Message-ID: <87zkvcf7f0.fsf@uwo.ca> References: <8762y178ny.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285027618 17671 80.91.229.12 (21 Sep 2010 00:06:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:06:58 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M19639@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 21 02:06:57 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxqNr-0006LE-3P for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:06:55 +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 1OxqND-0005mj-Ve; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:06:16 -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 1Oxnd7-0004xT-Vr for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:10:29 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxnd3-00063j-Cb for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:10:29 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Oxnd2-0000jk-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:10:24 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxnd1-0000Rc-D5 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:10:23 +0200 Original-Received: from bas3-london14-1096787025.dsl.bell.ca ([65.95.164.81]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:10:23 +0200 Original-Received: from jdc by bas3-london14-1096787025.dsl.bell.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:10:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bas3-london14-1096787025.dsl.bell.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sHiPJ+blsOCem1IiN+lz4Fk+xb8= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71266 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Dan Christensen writes: > >> My largest group has about 6500 articles, but after a few minutes of >> using gnus, gnus would only show me the newest 71 articles (which seem >> to be the ones whose article numbers are within 100 of the latest). >> `M-g' on the group fixed this, but then I found I had lost *all* >> marks on the older articles (tick, expired, answered definitely >> lost, read not lost). > > That's not good. I have a backup of my .newsrc.eld from before the marks were lost. Is there an easy way to use the backup to make Gnus change the marks to what they should be, and then propagate those changes to the IMAP server? It's not critical in this case, but it would be nice to have them back. Dan