Re: General questions regarding the Agent and IMAP

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>:
>
>> I'm confused by some aspects of using the Agent and IMAP.
>
> Ah... that combination is buggy.  See old messages on this list.
>
> The funniest effect is when the cached article is replaced with a file
> containing NOV data.
>
>> The articles I choose to fetch from the IMAP server with the agent exist
>> both on the server and as a local copy on my machine, right ?
>
> Yep.
>
>> If such an article is marked for expiry, is it deleted both on the local
>> copy and on the remote IMAP server ?
>
> I don't think so.  If you delete it while offline I don't think it is
> deleted on the server.  And deleting on the server doesn't clear the
> agent cached version, or at least I think it doesn't...? (at least it
> didn't do so back in 2001 or thereabuts.
>
>> Also, I noticed that every time I hit g in the Group buffer, a new copy
>> of *every* unread and unfetched message on the IMAP server is added in
>> the Summary, what could be the cause ?
>
> Bugs, possibly...?
>
>> Finally, the total message count is completely wrong for the IMAP server
>> if I'm using the agent but that's not too inconvenient.
>
> Another possible bug...?
>
> Actually, after trying to debug the agent several times and eventually
> giving up, I'm wondering if that isn't a candidate for just a severe
> rewrite as the nnimap backend...?
>

+1 on that : the same issues crop up time and time again indicating a
real gap there. I gave up on the agent with email (imap) - the message
counts just went nuts ;)