From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60927 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: agent forgetting marks Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:12:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: <864q8utvtf.fsf@solnet.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126275429 15607 80.91.229.2 (9 Sep 2005 14:17:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 14:17:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m9459@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Sep 09 16:17:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDjgP-0008Lh-Nr for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:16:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EDjgF-0004oT-00; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:16:39 -0500 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EDjcq-0004oO-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:13:08 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EDjcn-00055H-As for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:13:08 -0500 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EDjch-0000tq-00 for ; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:12:59 +0200 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se [217.215.27.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id j89EDJu8023193 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=OK); Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:13:28 +0200 Original-To: Robert Epprecht OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt X-Hashcash: 1:21:050909:epprecht@solnet.ch::PnLHSEzMQa0e7Slm:18C/ X-Hashcash: 1:21:050909:ding@gnus.org::BCMVkS940/pELGYn:7Ynz In-Reply-To: <864q8utvtf.fsf@solnet.ch> (Robert Epprecht's message of "Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:49:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=failed version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yxa-iv X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -1.3 (-) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60927 Archived-At: Robert Epprecht writes: > I have a problem with the agent and would appreciate any help very much: > > User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) > Debian sarge > > I have installed Debian sarge on a new machine, moved all user data > and the directory where I keep gnus cvs version from my prior debian > (woody) installation and did a cvs update. One of these steps must > have confused Gnus, but I can't find out what could be wrong. > I have *not* changed my Gnus configuration (which was working fine before) > in any way. > > I have two users using Gnus, one for mail (where everything works fine) > and another one for news. On news I see the following problem: > > 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. > > What could I do to find out why the agent is not working any more for me? Perhaps (setq gnus-agent-synchronize-flags t) helps?