going imap

[Paul Stevenson <paul@gleet.org.uk>]

Hello,
  I decided it was time to read my mail via imap, since it is the
  'supported' way to do it here.  In fact the local imap system writes
  files directly to ~/mbox (which is how I slurped the mail before)
  and also sometimes directly into ~/Mail (there is some splitting of
  spam before the mail gets to me),  which was not really good,  but
  we are supposed to read these files through imap.   

  Anyway, because of the second point,  I set gnus-home-directory to
  be something new in my .emacs file and began affresh with a very
  clean .gnus with just 

(setq gnus-select-method
      '(nnimap "mail"
               (nnimap-address "imap.server")
                               (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "Mail/*"))))

  since I don't want to read netnews from this account.  

  So, things kinda work except that when I start up a gnus session,
  gnus doesn't know how many unread articles are in the nnimap groups
  as viewed from the group buffer.  Only after looking at an nnimap
  group do I get an unread article count.  The information is then
  lost between gnus sessions.

  Also 'g' doesn't see new mail.  M-g does, but I don't want to have
  to position the cursor over my INBOX group before I can hit some key
  to check for new mail.   

  Are these just features of imap that I will learn to live with?

thanks,
Paul