Re: [ANNOUNCE] NNDiary, a diary backend for Gnus.

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Jody Klymak <jklymak@OCE.ORST.EDU> writes:

> ;; with an appropriate entry in .procmail...
> (setq nndiary-mail-sources '((imap :server "imap.oce.orst.edu" 
> :mailbox "mail/nndiary" :dontexpunge t)))
>
> However, it is maybe a little cruder than you would like.   The
> "dontexpunge" means that it can be left on the IMAP server for other
> users to fetch.   However, is it now flagged as read?  Maybe thats a
> problem for other users who only fetch unread.  How does gnus decide
> what articles to get from the IMAP server?  Does it keep track of
> read/unread, or does it read the flags from the server?

Doesn't this move things from the IMAP server into a local group?  Or
is it possible to tell nndiary to also store the nndiary:foo groups on
the IMAP server?

But I think your problem with the read mark is not really a problem.
In my experience, every user has their own read mark.  So if we share
a folder, and I read a message, then you still see it as unread.

However, other marks are per-folder, by default, rather than
per-user.  I'm using the following trick (kludge) to get a per-user
dormant mark with my Cyrus 1.6.x server.  Rumor has it that Cyrus 2.x
will support per-user `flags' (the IMAP equivalent of marks), but I
haven't seen it.

  (setcdr (assq 'dormant nnimap-mark-to-flag-alist)
          (format "gnus-dormant-%s" (user-login-name)))
  (setcdr (assq 'dormant nnimap-mark-to-predicate-alist)
          (format "KEYWORD gnus-dormant-%s" (user-login-name)))

And then I tell Gnus to always display dormant messages (as if with `/
D') in all groups, and this way I get kind of a per-folder tick as
well as a per-user tick.

kai
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