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From: Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does Gnus read and sync the read with IMAP?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:36:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878r7xs3vj.fsf@uwo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cyx98juk.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

On Oct 20, 2023, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:

> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> Here's a followup question:  how can I make Gnus update the marks for
>> *all* IMAP groups.
>
> I once asked Lars about this -- since the IMAP server should be the
> source of truth for all information about the messages, why does Gnus
> store its own marks data for IMAP groups at all? Why not just refresh
> from the server at each startup? I think he said that for many large
> groups that would end up being prohibitively slow.

I agree that it would be too slow for many people, especially with
remote IMAP servers.  So I'd like an optional setting.  But I don't
think it should have anything to do with Gnus shutdown and startup.
*Every* time I hit `g', I want the marks to be refreshed from the IMAP
server.  Presumably this is the same code that runs when Gnus starts up,
so it would improve the behaviour at startup as well.

Dan



  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-20 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20416.4865355537$1697735647@news.gmane.org>
2023-10-20 13:28 ` Dan Christensen
2023-10-20 14:11   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-10-20 15:36     ` Dan Christensen [this message]
2023-10-20 21:23       ` Björn Bidar
     [not found]       ` <48102.5036818878$1697837027@news.gmane.org>
2023-10-20 22:46         ` Eric Abrahamsen
     [not found] <65316d26.050a0220.cf46d.a86aSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2023-10-19 20:10 ` Bob Newell
2023-10-19 22:06   ` Björn Bidar
     [not found]   ` <6531aa57.050a0220.a965a.55e5SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2023-10-19 22:45     ` Bob Newell
2023-10-20  0:57       ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-10-20  2:58         ` Bob Newell
2023-10-20  4:26           ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-10-20 14:04             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-10-20 19:09               ` Bob Newell
2023-10-20 19:28                 ` Bob Newell
2023-10-20 21:18                   ` Björn Bidar
2023-10-20 20:14                 ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-10-22 22:29             ` James Thomas
2023-11-05 22:31             ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-10-20 13:12       ` Björn Bidar
2023-10-19 17:13 Björn Bidar

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