Re: Showing threads with IMAP

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>:
>
>> I'm reading email via IMAP from Fastmail.fm. I have (setq
>> gnus-fetch-old-headers t) set in my .gnus.el, but I never actually see
>> any previously read messages ... only the unread ones. Is there any
>> way to get this behavior with an IMAP server, so that I can see all
>> the previous messages in a thread that has new, unread messages?
>
> 'A T' (gnus-summary-refer-thread) should do the trick.
>
> 'C-h f gnus-summary-refer-thread RET' for more info.
>
> However, on an IMAP server it only works when the server uses the
> agent (I just tried).
>
> Also it didn't work on a message that didn't have a proper References
> header (sent by Lookout using an MSExchange server).  Nothing
> happened, presumably because dovecot didn't recognize the message as
> belonging to a thread...?

Thank you, Steiner. 'A T' works on this server, but I was hoping to have
threads with unread messages automatically show up in the summary. I
suppose I could live with having to recall them explicitly with 'A T'.

Thank you.
-pd