Re: agent forgetting marks

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch> writes:
>
>>> I read articles *un*plugged, mark some with '!' or '?' which seems
>>> to work fine. But if I plug Gnus now ('Jj') and do 'g' all the articles
>>> which I have read under the agent are shown again as unread. It's very
>>> annoing...  Gnus does *not* show the unseen mark '.' on these messages,
>>> so it seems to know that I have seen them at least. All the '!' and '?'
>>> marks have disappeared, though...
>>>
>>> BTW: If I read (or mark) articles in the *plugged* state everything
>>> works fine and read or marked articles stay read/marked regardless
>>> the online/offline status.
>
>>
>> Perhaps
>>
>> (setq gnus-agent-synchronize-flags t)
>>
>> helps?
>
> Yes, indeed, this seems to solve the problem.
>
> Was there a recent change in Gnus that requires me to set this variable
> now, which I never had to do before?

I think so, the variable default has been flipping between nil and ask
a few times.  Now I think we should try to make the default t.

> I usually do *not* read news online, but always use the agent. Is it
> normal Gnus behaviour that I have to set gnus-agent-synchronize-flags
> for that to work?  Or could it still be a sign that something went wrong,
> when I moved my Gnus news data from one system to the other?

No, it is the normal behavior, although I agree it is sub-optimal.
Making the default t is probably better.

I changed the default to t in No Gnus and on the 5.10 branch.