Re: Remembering read mail

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> One thing stopping me is the article summary list. I'm finding it very
>> confusing to look at, largely because the "read" status of messages is
>> not remembered between Gnus invocations. Every time I open the group all
>> the messages are unmarked. As I read them they turn bright blue-green
>> and get a "R" in the margin. Next time I open the group they're all
>> unmarked again.
>
> That shouldn't happen. Normally, the next time you enter the group, all
> previously read message should be hidden and the information, that they
> have been read remembered.
>
> Could it be, that you exit Gnus by just closing the Emacs window instead
> of shutting down Gnus with the 'q'-Key in summary buffer? In this case
> it might happen, that Gnus doesn't write to disk and loses all information...

Thanks very much to both of you, that was it! I was using 'q'
occasionally, usually just C-x k. That clears up another mystery—why
some of the messages would occasionally seem to disappear…

Thanks again, hopefully I can take it from here.

E