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

[Burkhard Perkens-Golomb <burkhard.perkens-golomb.NOSP@M.web.de>]

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.

        Burkhard