From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57995 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Flags/marks not being updated Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:09:49 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088439100 10831 80.91.224.253 (28 Jun 2004 16:11:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:11:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6536@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jun 28 18:11:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Beyj2-0003nE-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:11:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Beyhu-0001EU-00; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Beyhl-0001EM-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:10:01 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Beyhk-0004ff-My for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:10:00 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B8613A0034 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:09:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Beyhi-0002NF-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:09:58 +0200 Original-Received: from c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se ([217.215.27.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:09:58 +0200 Original-Received: from jas by c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:09:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4l+b8z7Maie6LWxN5wx3XOscKLk= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57995 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57995 Ralf Angeli writes: >> I really >> think that value should be the default, as you will lose flags with a >> `nil' setting. I don't know/understand why the default was changed. > > What I find interesting is that after setting it to 'ask, Gnus is > actually asking for the synchronization. I don't recall that I ever > had to answer such a question before, even when the default was 'ask. > Before all the strange behavior started, Gnus only asked if I would > like to switch servers into online status upon typing J-j; no > synchronization question. (I know that I can set it to t in order to > suppress the question.) Before, nntp servers didn't use marks, so the flags didn't need to be synchronized when you connected the agent again. So maybe it isn't that surprising. >> The bug yielding the backtrace should be fixed independently of this, >> though. > > Maybe it helps if I add that I issued J-Y with the agent in unplugged > state. It shouldn't do anything in that case, as it need to be plugged to synchronize the flags.