From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73575 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: (fake) unread messages using nnimap. Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:21:06 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <874ocaioc0.fsf@gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288016479 20742 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2010 14:21:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:21:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Daniel Pittman Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21944@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Oct 25 16:21:17 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 1PANvI-0001qo-5z for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:21:16 +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 1PANvF-0006IH-QE; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:21:13 -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 1PANvD-0006Hv-Qm for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:21:11 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PANvC-0001HW-Ge for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:21:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f44.google.com ([209.85.214.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PANvB-0002k6-00 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:21:09 +0200 Original-Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so3032704bwz.17 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:21:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject :organization:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=V5oRCB1KQ8TL0HjOeUUng3ITLwaKUDX18aNpMuSuDUc=; b=e6MOGebm9Nlc/HK5GizHHUE5FCQukqqPvAiVP3UZVmnn3NXMqEREWZiheUdKRKUgci aZvs9Vxxfu7rUYEY6B08Ud7vZrnBNeRoMb5gvGEMlIJ8Q2YFFd+OVGGW9F8cG+3/q9Pr 7S6E12wBJdyEGg/PKBWBkcvf8Ozv+R3phTsj4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:organization:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=jPYrVN4j9zPxElMbb4qbLobl3V/Lebq7cMHgGGpGPf9ApKNN7tiRSarMsBimmcJKam YddyXn8byGh9oiY0gZZ2Uq9MYf85YH0usI0U8WrhHjDQW0g4jJCuvggUaQRu/VaSrXDN uJJ0Qg8LjwWkaVN2Dh5IcAkVH1BwNR2Vq0J8U= Original-Received: by 10.204.76.197 with SMTP id d5mr4478504bkk.22.1288016469025; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([85.183.18.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u4sm4868885bkz.17.2010.10.25.07.21.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:21:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Daniel Pittman's message of "Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:07:06 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73575 Archived-At: Daniel Pittman writes: > Uwe Brauer writes: > >> I wrote about this some time ago but never saw my mail posted. Just in case >> again: I am using Xemacs 21.4.22 Mule, nognus 0.11 and the nnimap backend >> for reading my mail. My mail I receive using offlineimap and running the >> dovecot server on my Laptop. That is why I don't use the agent any more. >> >> However in every session gnus indicates in several nnimap groups unread >> message, where in fact there are not. When visiting the group *no* unread >> messages are shown and after leaving that group in fact the indication of >> the unread messages disappears. >> >> Does anybody know about this problem and what to do? > > It could be any number of things, but one of the common issues with > offlineimap that I have is: > > When you add a new message to a group on the "client" side of an IMAP <=> IMAP > sync pair, offlineimap will upload it to the server, delete it from the > client, then add a new copy with an extra header. > > Flags are preserved, though, so the message will show an a "new" item, but > already be read when Gnus looks at it. This would show in any folder where > you added messages with IMAP on the client side. > > offlineimap with a mutable client side (eg: Maildir) doesn't show this problem > because it doesn't need to delete and add a message to add the extra header. > > Regards, > Daniel Hi Daniel, FYI : I offlineimap between a local dovecot and a remote gmail and am pretty sure I dont see this behaviour. regards r.