Re: What's wrong with my spam.el settings now?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

"Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, jas@extundo.com wrote:
>
>> How is spam.el setting the spam mark?  In particular, is it using the
>> gnus-request-set-mark interface?  That interface must be called with
>> the flag update whenever any code that alter message flags without
>> going through the summary buffer variables (which are turned into
>> gnus-request-set-mark calls when exiting the group).
>
> I do it with gnus-summary-mark-article:
>
> 5 matches for "mark-article" in buffer: spam.el
>    1325:	    (gnus-summary-mark-article article gnus-spam-mark))
>    1387:      (gnus-summary-mark-article article gnus-expirable-mark)))
>    1427:	    (gnus-summary-mark-article article gnus-unread-mark))
>    1432:	    (gnus-summary-mark-article article gnus-expirable-mark))
>    1708:		 (gnus-summary-mark-article article gnus-spam-mark))
>
> which worked fine so far.
>
> If that's wrong, what's the right way to do it (if you can point me to
> code that does the right thing, I'll make sure to implement mine the
> same way)?
>
>> If the spam mark should never be synced across Gnus installations,
>> then it should be added to gnus-article-unpropagated-mark-lists, then
>> the nnml code will not revert the spam flag.  However, it seems like
>> the spam mark should be synchronized between Gnus installations,
>> should it not?  Then the spam.el code has to call the g-r-s-m
>> interface when updating the marks.
>
> The spam mark is ephemeral, it only matters for the duration of a
> summary visit.  When you exit, spam-marked articles get processed and
> expired.  I did this intentionally when I started writing the spam.el
> logic.

Ok, this all looks good.  I misunderstood the original report.  The
problem seem to be with the seen/unseen mark, not the spam mark.
Björn, how are you quitting the group?  Are you exiting it with 'q' to
save the marks?  If you type G E on the group before entering, and
save the list of articles associated with 'seen', then enter the group
and read a few articles and quit the group using 'q', and press G E
again, do the 'seen' list look the same?

What is your general setup?  Is your ~/News/marks directory read-only
somehow?

I don't recall any reports of seen/unseen troubles like this at all.