Re: New messages marked O before seeing them

[John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> 
> John Sullivan <john <at> wjsullivan.net> writes:
> 
> > Not a for-sure recipe :/ Try sending yourself a few dozen messages with
> > the folder open for an hour or so. During that time, delete a few
> > messages, move a few messages to another group, read a few messages.
> > Then / N. That's closer to the conditions under which I see it.
> 
> Could you try to provoke the bug with a simpler recipe?  
> 
> > Finally, I'd try the same thing as the first recipe, but instead of
> > doing / N, just quit the group, re-enter it, quit it again, fetch new
> > mail, and enter it again.
> 
> I haven't seen any issues with non-`/ N' IMAP group usage, though...
> 


So, I can reproduce this with a command in cron that emails me every minute.

echo "Test" | mail me@example.com -s "`date -u`"

Out of 116 test messages sent, 17 were marked O without me seeing them.

To reproduce it, it does not seem to be enough to just have the folder open 
while the mail is arriving. I think other activity, such as moving and replying 
to mail, is also necessary. But I haven't pinned that down yet.

In an hour while I was away from the computer with the folder open and the 
program running, no mails were marked O. But while actually working in the 
folder, those 17 were.