Re: Flags/marks not being updated

[Ralf Angeli <dev.null@iwi.uni-sb.de>]

* Simon Josefsson (2004-06-28) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <dev.null@iwi.uni-sb.de> writes:
>
>> Under certain circumstances flags or marks are not being updated
>> anymore.
[...]
>> Looking through lisp/ChangeLog I saw that in midth May some new code
>> related to marks was checked in and the default of
>> `gnus-agent-synchronize-flags' was set to nil.  So I tried to
>> synchronize the flags manually by issueing J-Y in the group buffer
>> but this produced an error with the following backtrace:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
[...]
> Does it help to (setq gnus-agent-synchronize-flags 'ask)?

Yes, this helps.  I thought that I would get the error mentioned
above if I set it to 'ask, so I didn't check it. (c%  Thank you!

> I really
> think that value should be the default, as you will lose flags with a
> `nil' setting.  I don't know/understand why the default was changed.

What I find interesting is that after setting it to 'ask, Gnus is
actually asking for the synchronization.  I don't recall that I ever
had to answer such a question before, even when the default was 'ask.
Before all the strange behavior started, Gnus only asked if I would
like to switch servers into online status upon typing J-j; no
synchronization question.  (I know that I can set it to t in order to
suppress the question.)

> The bug yielding the backtrace should be fixed independently of this,
> though.

Maybe it helps if I add that I issued J-Y with the agent in unplugged
state.

-- 
Ralf