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From: James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does Gnus read and sync the read with IMAP?
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 03:59:03 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0lmmguo.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87il71dimy.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Fri, 20 Oct 2023 06:26:13 +0200")

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> AFAIU Gnus stores such stuff in a file named ".newsrc.eld" (AFAIR
> ".newsrc.el" in older Emacs versions).  And indeed, among other things
> there seems to be information about "seen" status of messages in that
> file, as well as saved status, ticked and dormant status, all of that
> Gnus specific stuff, but nothing related to the "read" (or "old")
> status.  So I guess the "read" status is fetched every time when you
> open the group, along with the rest (list of existing messages etc).

Just FYI: For those who use the agent, (info "(gnus) Agent and flags")
is also relevant in this regard.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-22 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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 [this message]
2023-11-05 22:31             ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-10-20 13:12       ` Björn Bidar
     [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
2023-10-20 21:23       ` Björn Bidar
     [not found]       ` <48102.5036818878$1697837027@news.gmane.org>
2023-10-20 22:46         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-10-19 17:13 Björn Bidar

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