Re: Releasing the new nnimap on y'all soon

[Knut Anders Hatlen <kahatlen@gmail.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Knut Anders Hatlen <kahatlen@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> And one more problem I've noticed... When entering a group with some
>> ticked articles (the articles had been ticked with the old nnimap or
>> with other mail clients), it seems to get confused and sometimes show
>> the ticked ones as read and the read ones as ticked.
>
> Hm...  what does `G E' on one of these groups say?

For example I have one that looks like this:

("apache.derby-dev" 3
 ((1 . 1685))
 ((seen 596 609 965 1337 1503 1566
        (1592 . 1692))
  (reply
   (1592 . 1640)
   (1642 . 1656)
   (1658 . 1666)
   (1668 . 1692))
  (tick
   (1592 . 1640)
   (1642 . 1656)
   (1658 . 1666)
   (1668 . 1692))))

When I enter the group (by pressing enter, so I won't see read ones) I
see 97 messages, all of which marked as answered (which is not true), 91
of them are marked as ticked, 6 are marked as unread.

The correct should have been 7 unseen and 6 ticked. The rest should be
marked as read.

> And you say "sometimes" -- can you see any pattern?

Well, not really. I haven't found any reliable way to reproduce this
exact problem, but some odd behaviour with flags can be seen by doing
this:

1) Start from scratch by doing rm ~/.newsrc*

2) Start Gnus, enter the server buffer and browse the imap server

3) Subscribe to a group with U

4) Go back to *Groups* and enter the group (without pressing "g" first)

When you enter the summary buffer, you'll see all the mails as unread
and unticked, which is not correct. If you then exit the summary buffer,
press "g", and reenter the group, the flags will be correct.

-- 
Knut Anders