Re: [nnimap] Deleted messages don't go away

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

gdt@work.lexort.com writes:

> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
>> gdt@work.lexort.com writes:
>>
>>> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I keep seeing some messages in my NNIMAP groups even long after I've
>>>> removed them using a different mail client.  Is there some way to get
>>>> Gnus to forget what it thinks it knows so the record can be accurate
>>>> again?
>>>
>>> I had this problem too, and turned off the agent.  Then gnus seems to
>>> no longer remember the stale messages.
>>
>> Yeah, but once you turn it back on, they come back, right?  I can't
>> even get them to go away by removing the group from the agent.
>
> I didn't try this, but I'd expect them to come back.  Since the agent
> seems broken with nnimap (if messages are deleted by other imap
> clients), I just disabled the agent for the entire nnimap server.

But of course I want offline access to my IMAP messages.  And (of
course) my IMAP server is slow so having a local cache is valuable.

> It would be nice to have the agent work, and be able to use cached
> copies of messages and at mail offline.  It seems that some other uses
> of the agent want articles only in the agent (but not on the server)
> to appear.  So perhaps this should be a per-group or per-server
> property, defaulting to "sync with server" for nnimap.

That would sure be nice.  I wish I could do it myself, but I've given
up trying to modify the Gnus system (or even really understand it --
I'm sometimes amazed I can use it at all, but it's still the most
productive client I can find).

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com