From: Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus in an IMAP multi-client setup.
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:09:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <864nmhr8pt.fsf@corbe.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.9914.1348822371.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com> writes:
> Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net> writes:
>
>> I hope this is the right place to ask for general advice. gnus makes an
>> awesome news reader and with all the performance gains with the version
>> of gnus distributed with emacs24 I'd like to use it as an IMAP mail
>> reader as well.
>>
>> I need gnus to behave in a cooperative way with other IMAP clients.
>> gnus is marking entire folders as read as soon as I open them
>> up in the group summary buffer. This is undesirable behavior, because
>> then my other IMAP clients also show the message marked as read.
>>
>> Can someone point me in the right direction? I'd like to be able to
>> manually toggle the read status of a message or even have it done
>> automatically -- but only after I've viewed the message.
>>
>> -Daniel
>
> Daniel,
>
> Could we see your setup? How are you accessing IMAP mail?
>
> I use my two IMAP accounts as secondary select methods and they don't
> mark mail as read (technically, set the IMAP Seen flag) until I have either
> actually read them or told Gnus to mark them as read. The two accounts
> are set up like this:
>
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
> '((nnimap "imap.pitt.edu"
> (nnimap-server-port 993)
> (nnimap-stream ssl)
> (nnir-search-engine imap))
> (nnimap "imap.gmail.com"
> (nnimap-server-port 993)
> (nnimap-stream ssl)
> (nnir-search-engine imap))))
>
> I have experienced behavior like you describe when experimenting with
> Fetchmail as an IMAP retrieval agent, however. Fetchmail rudely sets
> Seen when it fetches. It's a very good reason not to use Fetchmail for
> IMAP; if you like that sort of utility, better to use getmail or
> offlineimap, which behave more properly from an IMAP standpoint.
I had the sort of the opposite configuration in place. nnimap was my
primary select method. Making nnimap my secondary select method seems
to have stopped it from making *eveything* in my IMAP folder as read;
however, now nothing is being marked as read after I read the mail message.
For posterity, here's all my gnus-affecting settings:
(custom-set-variables
'(send-mail-function (quote smtpmail-send-it))
'(smtpmail-smtp-server "smtpcorp.com")
'(smtpmail-smtp-service 2525))
(setq user-mail-address "corbe@corbe.net")
(setq user-full-name "Daniel Corbe")
(setq gnus-select-method
'(nntp "us.news.astraweb.com"))
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
'((nnimap "apollo.corbe.net"
(nnimap-address "apollo.corbe.net")
(nnimap-authenticator login)
(nnimap-server-port 1143)
(nnimap-stream network)
(nnimap-expunge-on-close 'never))))
(setq gnus-mime-display-multipart-related-as-mixed nil)
(setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m)
(setq mm-inline-text-html-with-images t)
(setq mm-inline-text-html-with-w3m-keymap nil)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-29 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-27 3:27 Daniel Corbe
2012-09-28 8:52 ` William Gardella
[not found] ` <mailman.9914.1348822371.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2012-09-29 0:09 ` Daniel Corbe [this message]
2012-12-24 16:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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