Re: Syncing gmane group read state across multiple gnusen

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no>:

> Hmm, maybe this initial visiting of all imap groups (to resync unread
> counts) can be scripted/automated via elisp? That would at least
> alleviate the problem somewhat.

Should be doable.

I've also wanted to do something similar, but more advanced, on Gmane
groups:
 - visit the group
 - walk through all unread articles, and visit them, and then
  - if present, mark as unread and go to the next article
  - if expired (typically reported spam articles), skip to the next
    article 

What's kept me from doing it so far, is that the function for visiting
articles, seemed not very appropriate to run as a lisp function (can't
remember why or what, only that it wasn't obvious how I should use it).

Also, since this
 ;; Store article in agent when reading it while online
 (add-hook 'gnus-select-article-hook 'gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article)
no longer works to cache all read articles in agent, the nice side
effect of having cached _all_ articles in in a group, not just the ones
smaller than whatever cutoff size, isn't present