From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70795 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Knut Anders Hatlen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: That newfangled IMAP thing... Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:12:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87pqwmsusz.fsf@news.realpath.org> <8762yd6j4j.fsf@rimspace.net> <87eid0fsil.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bp84y00w.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <878w35ex1q.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aanlde64.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284415946 18303 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2010 22:12:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:12:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M19168@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 14 00:12:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OvHGC-0007sW-7H for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:12:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OvHG6-00075H-Fl; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:12:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OvHG4-00074z-G9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OvHG0-0007au-71 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OvHFz-00068F-00 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:12:11 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OvHFv-0007jd-N6 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:12:07 +0200 Original-Received: from gw2.mysql.com ([213.136.52.1]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:12:07 +0200 Original-Received: from kahatlen by gw2.mysql.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:12:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gw2.mysql.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FrS+zyUv998VT1Cf5rztXSZVGIo= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70795 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Knut Anders Hatlen writes: > >> Are you also storing Gnus-specific flags, like expire and dormant, on >> the server? > > It's not doing so now, because I didn't think that would be useful. But > it would if you were using Gnus to read from several different > locations, wouldn't it? Yes, it would. The IMAP server I use the most doesn't support it, and that's a bit annoying when I switch to a different machine. But as long as the flags are stored locally and Gnus doesn't fail when attempting to store them on the server, I'm happy. >> If so, you may want to look out for servers that don't allow storing >> custom flags. Look for the presence of \* in the PERMANENTFLAGS >> response. I think the old nnimap stored these flags on the server if >> supported, and only locally in .newsrc.eld otherwise. > > Is there some name space that one should use if storing private flags? > Like $MyFlag or something? Kind of. The system flags start with a backslash and the private flags don't. (See 2.3.2 Flags Message Attribute in RFC 3501.) The old nnimap used gnus-expire, gnus-dormant and so on. -- Knut Anders