From: William Gardella <gardellawg-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: gnus in an IMAP multi-client setup.
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:52:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sja2bkc0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bogsb0wl.fsf@corbe.net>
Daniel Corbe <corbe-P/Xu/LeLCC5eoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-28 8:52 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 [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.9914.1348822371.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2012-09-29 0:09 ` Daniel Corbe
2012-12-24 16:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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