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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
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Subject: Re: Syncing nnimap more aggressively?
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Kinkie <REAL-ADDRESS-IN-SIGNATURE@nodomain.com> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Kinkie <REAL-ADDRESS-IN-SIGNATURE@nodomain.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi all.
>>>    I would like to be able to use a few mailboxes from different
>>> client systems. I've noticed that nnimap doesn't really sync its state
>>> with the remote system, but apparently keeps a lot of state in
>>> .gnus.eld.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to instruct nnimap to just store message state on the
>>> imap server?
>>
>> Nnimap should do this.  At least if "message state" includes flags.
>> What is it that nnimap doesn't sync from the server, for you?
>
> When I access the same mailboxes from another client, I see that only
> some of the read messages have been marked as such, and not all
> expired messages have been expunged. The latter I can live with, but
> the former is annoying.

Right, and at least the former shouldn't happen.  If you (setq
imap-log t) and show us the output generated into the buffer
*imap-log* by entering a group that exhibit this, this might help.
There should be a UID SEARCH SEEN command there, which return a list
of article numbers.  Verify if this list is correct or not.  If the
list is incorrect, it is the server that has a problem (unless Gnus
somehow actually marked some of you seen articles as unseen, before
that, of course).