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Paul Stevenson <paul@gleet.org.uk> writes:

> 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.   

Does setting `nnimap-need-unselect-to-notice-new-mail' help?

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

It works for me.