Re: nnimap syncing

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

"Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com> writes:

> Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:
>
>> This means, you can read servers A, B, C at work and servers A, D, E
>> at home and sync the marks files for A and then you'll get
>> synchronization for that server between home and work.
>
> I wish I could get this to work for my nnimap groups. I finally
> convinced my ISP to enable user-defined flags, so "gnus-expire" or
> whatever the expiry flag is shows up, but my expiry marks don't seem
> to be recognized across different machines. That is, I see an nnimap
> article at work, mark it as expirable, come home and connect to the
> same server, and see that same article with no expiry mark.
>
> We discussed this a few months ago¹, and at that time the advice was
> twofold: stop syncing .newsrc.eld, and get user-defined flags enabled
> on the IMAP server. I've done both, and still find the whole syncing
> system to be a mess. After each sync, the agent remains confused as
> ever.

Do you have imap-log buffer output for when you set the expire-mark in
one Gnus, and the log from when entering the group in the other Gnus?