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Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> Agent support for imap is really what you want.  The good news is that 
> it works under IMAP, I've done it.  The bad news is that it doesn't
> work completely.  Specifically, when you exit a nnimap group under a
> unplugged gnus, it still tries to talk to the imap server to update
> the mark list.  Fixing this would require nnimap to stash the mark
> changes until gnus became plugged again (the wrong way to do it), or
> to have gnus support backend mark processing better so that gnus will
> automatically cache commands sent to the imap server, and then ask the 
> backend to "really do it" later.

I wrote a `nnagent-request-set-mark', similar to your second solution,
some time ago. It stashes flag setting requests to a file, when you
become plugged you `eval-buffer' the file. It should be trivial to
plug it into Gnus. I'll see what I can do...

-s