Re: nnimap usage model

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

Thanks for your reply, Kevin

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> The agent has three faces and a format specifier to highlight articles
> that have NOT been downloaded.  The faces appear by default while the
> format specifier must be added through customization.

Hmm, I'll see if I can track that down.  Could you elaborate on what
you mean by "appear by default", and where the customization for the
format specifier can be found?

> If you don't like using colors to indicate the undownloaded articles,
> you can customize gnus-summary-highlight.  Just remove the three cons
> cells that refer to gnus*undownloaded-face.
>
> If you want to use +/- markers you can add %O to gnus-summary-line-format.

I'll consider that as an alternative; it might be preferable.

> You're the first to describe newly downloaded articles as being marked
> as "ancient".  

I think I was mis-describing the marks; the face used for ancient
articles looks a lot like the one used for un-downloaded articles on
NTEmacs when you don't use Courier New :(

> Also that those articles are being highlighted.  

I don't think I ever mentioned the word "highlighted."

> Try downloading the latest gnus-agent.el or set
> gnus-agent-mark-unread-after-downloaded to t.

Well, now I'm seeing some other bizzarre behavior.  My relevant
settings are now:

    gnus-check-new-newsgroups nil
    gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups "INBOX"
    gnus-agent-cache t            ; see NOTE below
    gnus-agent t
    gnus-agent-consider-all-articles t
    gnus-agent-expire-days 36500
    gnus-agent-mark-unread-after-downloaded t

I was looking at my INBOX and I decided to see how many read messages
it was keeping, so I did `/ o 50' and the old messages appeared, but
suddenly all the messages which were marked already-read were now
marked undownloaded.  Does anybody have an explanation for that?

NOTE: also, I'm not really sure what I'm getting from
gnus-agent-cache.  All I can find in the documentation says "the agent
is also a big cache!"  Can somebody explain what that means?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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