Re: gnus-summary-catchup-and-exit not setting marks

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

> In some groups, regardless of back end (I have nntp, nnml, nnimap, all
> of which are affected), pressing c, gnus-summary-catchup-and-exit
> doesn't always do the catch up part.  

Is the group buffer updated or not?

I think I have seen this too, but only after `g' after a `c' -- the
catched up messages are back as unread.  This is nnimap.

> In other groups it works fine.  Looking at show-message-log, in the
> groups in which it works, I see a message "Setting marks in ...", in
> the others I don't.  I'm also not positive it's always happening in
> the same groups.  I've looked through group params etc and can't
> find any obvious differences.  If I do the equivalent work of that
> function with M C Z n, then all works as expected.  It almost seems
> like there's a race condition somewhere.  Any advice on how I could
> try to debug this?

If you can reproduce it easily, edebugging `c' is a starting point.