Re: Automatically marking Gcc's as SEEN in nnimap

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com> writes:

> M-x apropos-variable RET gnus.*gcc.*read RET
>
> gnus-gcc-mark-as-read
>   Variable: If non-nil, automatically mark Gcc articles as read.

Thanks, but I forgot to mention in my original post that I am already
using that variable and it is set to `t' ... and the Gcc'ed messages are
never being marked as SEEN.

Have you actually tested this setting within an nnimap group and an
nnimap Gcc, or are you just going by the docs?

Here's pertinent the code fragment in gnus-msg.el ...

  (when (and group-art
             ;; FIXME: Should gcc-mark-as-read work when
             ;; Gnus is not running?
             (gnus-alive-p)
             (or gnus-gcc-mark-as-read
                 (and
                  (boundp 'gnus-inews-mark-gcc-as-read)
                  (symbol-value 'gnus-inews-mark-gcc-as-read))))
    (gnus-group-mark-article-read group (cdr group-art)))

This fragment appears within the `gnus-inews-do-gcc' function, and there
is no other gnus code which tests the value of the variable
`gnus-gcc-mark-as-read'. Could it be that this variable only applies
when an inews-type function is being performed under nntp, and not under
any other back ends such as nnimap?

However, if this code indeed gets executed in all backends, then I
should point out that gnus is indeed alive when the Gcc is being
performed; therefore, `(gnus-alive-p)' definitely returns `t'. Maybe
`group-art' isn't set? Is there some other setting that controls how
that variable is set?

Or perhaps the problem is related to nnimap. Maybe marking the messages
as "read" in gnus isn't the same as marking them as "SEEN" in IMAP. Or
maybe there is some other problem ... ???



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