Re: Returning to ticks on read-only imap servers

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com> writes:

> Hmm...  When does the information about marks need to be known?

Immediately.  :-)

When you do a `g', you get lists of marks and stuff from the server.
(nnimap issues a series of EXAMINE + UID FETCH FLAGS commands.)  If it's
a normal read/write mailbox, then the absence of a \Seen, for instance,
means that Gnus should consider the message to be unread.  If it's a
read-only mailbox, then the absence of \Seen doesn't mean anything, and
Gnus shouldn't alter any of the data it has on the article in question.

So Gnus needs to now the status before doing anything, really, which
seems to imply that nnimap has to do a SELECT on any mailboxes it hasn't
seen before.  Hm.  That's actually not very difficult, since it already
knows this stuff.

So it just means that it has to stash this flag somewhere, and the group
info is as good as place as any, I guess.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen