nnimap group loses tick marks

nnimap group loses tick marks

[Hannu Koivisto]

Greetings,

With Emacs 20.7 and Gnus from CVS as of yesterday, if I tick-mark
an article in a foreign nnimap group, exit the group and enter it
again, the article doesn't have that tick mark anymore.  If this is
a feature, I didn't see it mentioned in the manual (I think it
should be) and I'd also appreciate that Gnus would refuse to tick
articles to begin with if it can't actually store the marks.

-- 
Hannu

Re: nnimap group loses tick marks

[Simon Josefsson]

Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> writes:

> With Emacs 20.7 and Gnus from CVS as of yesterday, if I tick-mark
> an article in a foreign nnimap group, exit the group and enter it
> again, the article doesn't have that tick mark anymore.

Could you evaluate

(setq imap-log "*imap-log*")

and tick-mark an article + exit the group + enter the group, and send
me the contents of the *imap-log* buffer?

> If this is a feature, I didn't see it mentioned in the manual (I
> think it should be) 

It's not a feature.

> and I'd also appreciate that Gnus would refuse to tick articles to
> begin with if it can't actually store the marks.

Hm, I'm not sure this is possible, Gnus doesn't have the case of a
tick-set failure.  But nnimap might signal an error if it's unable to
set flags requested by Gnus.  But some servers don't implement tick
flags, or all flags are read-only, or whatever, and in that case
nnimap wouldn't work at all.  Hm, perhaps the *imap-log* will give
more details to what kind of error this is.