From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79778 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: This bug is killing me! Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:27:18 +0200 Organization: not if I can help it Message-ID: References: <87pqjnqt5k.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314696518 7924 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2011 09:28:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:28:38 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28072@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 30 11:28:34 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 1QyKcT-0002ck-Qu for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:28:34 +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 1QyKbe-0006k4-0A; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:27:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QyKbc-0006jt-9a for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:27:40 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QyKba-0004yW-A9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:27:39 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QyKbW-000797-Uz for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:27:34 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QyKbW-0002Gr-Or for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:27:34 +0200 Original-Received: from lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net ([81.56.191.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:27:34 +0200 Original-Received: from rpluim by lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:27:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xp8QDbAInTxdByeKnpRqy3VoMng= X-Spam-Score: -4.5 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79778 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Could you check if it works for you if you enable propagating marks? > > ,----[ C-h v gnus-propagate-marks RET ] > | gnus-propagate-marks is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'. > | Its value is t > | Original value was nil > | > | Documentation: > | If non-nil, Gnus will store and retrieve marks from the backends. > | This means that marks will be stored both in .newsrc.eld and in > | the backend, and will slow operation down somewhat. > | > | You can customize this variable. > | > | [back] > `---- > > BTW: I think, that the default of this variable should be t nowadays, > where it's pretty common that people use different clients for accessing > their mail (Gnus on "real" computers, Whatever on their phones, the web > interfaces of their mail providers, etc.). I just tried setting that to true, and all the unread counts on my nntp groups (which I access only via Gnus), became wrong (as in much too high). Does this mean there is stale info in the backend that I need to regenerate or delete? Robert