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From: John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Continuing problems with marks in nnimap
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 15:13:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pr0ebbm0.fsf@myles.home.wjsullivan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hn8iyus.fsf@myles.home.wjsullivan.net>

John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> writes:

> I have mentioned before that unread articles are sometimes spontaneously
> being marked as O, causing them to disappear from my view and me to lose
> track of them. This is a really awful problem to have, but I have no
> idea how to reproduce it or debug it. The only thing I can do is mark
> all unread articles with !, which seems to successfully keep them
> around. But this is very undesirable, since I'd rather use ! for other
> meanings. I will go for a month without the problem happening, and then
> suddenly it will, wiping out my Inbox.

And, it just happened again. Only this time it didn't mark *all* of the
unread messages as O, just almost all of them -- it left 2 unread
messages, which were very new.

When it does happen, it happens when I exit a group as normal with q.

-- 
John Sullivan
Emacs Planner Maintainer
http://wjsullivan.net/PlannerMode.html
GPG Key: AE8600B6

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-29 22:13 UTC|newest]

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2010-05-12 21:39 John Sullivan
2010-05-29 22:13 ` John Sullivan [this message]
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2010-05-30 19:19     ` Jason Riedy

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