Re: Gnus forgets marks if switching from unplugged to plugged - SOLUTION (?)

[Kevin Greiner <kevin.greiner@vignette.com>]

Burkhard Perkens-Golomb <burkhard.perkens-golomb.NOSP@M.web.de> writes:

> On 5 Mai 2005, Burkhard Perkens-Golomb wrote:
>
>> On 5 Mai 2005, Kevin Greiner wrote:
>>
>>> Burkhard Perkens-Golomb <burkhard.perkens-golomb@web.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> The problem:
>>>>
>>>> I download articles while Gnus is in plugged state. I switch to
>>>> unplugged state, read and mark articles while Gnus is unplugged. I
>>>> switch back to plugged and press "g" in the group buffer. I see
>>>> some messages "Updating marks for <groupname>...done" in the
>>>> minibuffer. When the updating is finished all marks (read, ticked,
>>>> dormant) I did in the unplugged state are lost :-( .
>>>>
>>>> I'm working with No Gnus 0.3 and GNU Emacs 21.3.1
>>>> (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600).
>>>
>>> What backend are you using? nntp, nnimap?
>>
>> I'm using nntp.
>>
>> By the way marks done in plugged state stay forever, only marks done
>> in unplugged state get lost.
>
> I've found a simple way to get the expected behaviour: I've set the
> variable gnus-agent-synchronize-flags to t (previously it was
> nil). From the docs I expected the variable to be relevant for
> agentized IMAP groups only. But gnus-agent-synchronize-flags seems to
> be used for nntp groups too. Was it changed sometime ago? If so the
> docs should be changed.

Excellent news.  I'll update the manual.

Kevin