From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79719 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP + Agent Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:08:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314148560 24474 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2011 01:16:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:16:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28013@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 24 03:15:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qw24Q-0005YG-JW for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:15:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qw23h-0001rx-Vi; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:15:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qw23g-0001rm-EL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:15:08 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qw23f-0005qJ-4x for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:15:08 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qw23d-0007MF-5S for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:15:05 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qw23d-0005Jn-1F for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:15:05 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-214-102-66.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([98.214.102.66]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:15:05 +0200 Original-Received: from jwiegley by c-98-214-102-66.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:15:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-214-102-66.hsd1.il.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dli6rMWodUrmXlrScU7TWmmLJ5w= X-Spam-Score: -4.5 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79719 Archived-At: >>>>> Richard Riley writes: > I've posted numerous time about using Gnus with imap and agent using > multiple email accounts at the same provider. It doesnt work. Each time the > replies were vague, requently at odds with each other of the form "should > work" or "IMAP doesn work with the agent". What is the real state of play > these days? e.g I was never able to get nnimap to play well enough with the Agent for me to trust it. I kept ending up with marks and unread counts going wonky, messages not getting downloaded although I'd used J s and set my default agent category predicate to `true', etc. Recently I've approached e-mail Nirvana by using offlineimap with Dovecot (using the full-text search backend with nnir) to essentially offload the concept of "offlineness" from Gnus entirely. Now my e-mail server is always available, Internet or no. In fact, I found this to be so much nicer in so many ways that I've switched to using Leafnode for NNTP as well (and nnmairix for doing article searches). Now Gnus thinks the servers are always alive, and there's no more puzzling. If you're interested I could share configuration details with you, but there is a definite learning curve to this approach. On the other hand, once it's all setup it's pretty bulletproof, with the added benefit that it conveys "offlineness" to every other Mail and News reader you have. John