Re: nnimap, tick mark not synced when reading from 2 computers

[Par Kurlberg <kurlberg@math.kth.se>]

Dear Will,

The problem has returned with a vengeance.  For messages kept on an IMAP
mail server (accessed via nnimap), the act of clearing the tick mark (on
the server) does not make it to gnus.  I've tried setting/unsetting the
tick (I think it is called "Flagged" on the imap end) using thunderbird,
and the unticking is not "seen" by gnus, where ticking does work.
Setting gnus-agent-synchronize-flags to t does not solve the
unticking-not-seen problem.

Any further suggestions?  (I've tried accessing the imap inbox from a
newly created test account in order to make sure that some old
gnus-related cruft is causing the problem, but no change.)

Best,
Par 

PS: The emacs/gnus versions are: 

GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.2, GTK+ Version 2.18.9) of 2013-03-29 on odin.lan

Gnus v5.13

William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear Par,
>
> Par Kurlberg <kurlberg@math.kth.se> writes:
>
>> Dear Will, 
>>
>> I have now made some further experiments: I start emacs with "emacs -q",
>> and I have suppressed (load-file "~/config/el/gnus-splitting.el").  The
>> problem still remains, but I can be a bit more precise now: when I
>> tick-mark a message, it is transfered to the mail server, and the other
>> client "sees" it correctly (this works in both directions.)
>>
>> However, when I *remove* a tick mark, it is also updated on the imap
>> server (I checked it with thunderbird), but neither gnus-cliente "sees"
>> that the tick mark has been removed.  It *seems* like a set tick mark in
>> .newsrc.eld overrides a cleared tick mark (on the server.)
>>
>> In summary: set tick marks are being transfered correctly, whereas
>> cleared tick marks are not.  (Though the right thing is done on the imap
>> server in both cases.)
>
> Interesting...
>
> What is the value of the variable `gnus-agent-synchronize-flags',
> described in (info "(gnus) Agent and flags") ?  If it set to nil or
> 'ask, try setting it to t.  I notice I have it set to t, and my flags
> are in sync across the three boxes (including when I remove a flag).
>
> Best,
> Will