Re: Gnus sometimes reports new messages but not showing them on IMAP server

[Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com>]

Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> writes:

>> I've focused on figuring out why the active number goes wrong, but in
>> the interest of pragmatism it might be better just to make sure that
>> nnimap always does the equivalent of "M-g" at Gnus startup.
>
> That might be a good compromise.

Agreed.  It seems obvious (said knowing that's dangerous) that on
starting up the program, it's best not to rely on state that could be
wrong.   That's tricky, because mail programs keep messages and don't
refetch them, but relying on counts of unread seems very trouble prone,
vs "I have this message body and the timestamp matches so I won't fetch
it."

I think it would also be good to separate

   check for new

   get all the messages that are there

   really rescan and don't believe state

in terms of being much louder about the differences.  I have the
impression that the assembled gnususers here are at least somewhat hazy
on those boundaries.  At least I am.