From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4266 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: is it me or is imap support really crappy? Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:24:04 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670230 22554 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:17:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:30 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de DZtH010AhmCV4tGkomW0VQPAGg2yE+DTelzBG/Zzg/qZySZpAs User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o6hwcbQwmfQKJ3B1sSHqA1ydamo= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4407 Original-Lines: 89 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4407 Tue Jan 17 17:33:30 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4266 Archived-At: hi all, sorry for the (possibly) offensive subject, but the problems i've been seeing the past few days with my imap mailboxes aren't really building my confidence in Gnus+imap... ok, for some details. i have two imap mailboxes i'm (trying to) manage with Gnus. one is a fastmail account, the other is my university's mail server. i've set gnus-secondary-select-methods as follows: #v+ (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnimap "Fastmail" (nnimap-address "mail.messagingengine.com") (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")) (nnimap "Uni Frankfurt" (nnimap-address "imap.server.uni-frankfurt.de") (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")))) #v- after a few days, i started noticing that new mail on the university's server never showed up in Gnus. that is, hitting 'g' in the groups buffer wouldn't find it. (new mail on the fastmail server was found, though.) i would only see new mail if i restarted Gnus and entered the nnimap group. btw, when i fire up Gnus, a connection to the uni's imap server is established, the subscribed groups are listed, but Gnus doesn't say how many new messages there are in each group. instead, it just shows an asterisk (*). one possible cause i could find on google was that the groups on the university's server may be foreing groups. however, i was unable to find any info on how i could tell if they were, and the suggested solution (unsubscribe, kill, retreive active file and resubscribe) didn't change anything. i found the key binding M-g would find new mail on the server, but also not entirely reliably. i also found that the messages Gnus displayed when i entered a group on either imap server (i.e. this happened with *both* the fastmail and the uni's server) i would see lots of messages that were already deleted. (not just marked as expirable, but actually deleted: if i selected them for viewing, Gnus would report that the message wasn't available and might have expired.) doing M-g would *not* get rid of these messages. and what's more, after leaving and re-entering the group, the *same* messages Gnus had just reported didn't exist anymore still showed up in the summary buffer. i then disabled the agent for the imap servers (`J r' in the server buffer), and that at least got rid of the non-existing messages. the current situation is that when i enter the university's inbox, what i end up seeing is the contents of the fastmail inbox. i haven't got a clue how i or Gnus managed to do this, but it looks very wrong... so, there you have it. either i'm as daft as the proverbial brush (a possibility that i unfortunately cannot exclude ;-) and i'm doing something very stupid, or Gnus' imap support simply isn't up to speed. if anyone could shed some light on which one it is, (and possibly offer some help to solve my problems if it is indeed the former) i'd be very grateful. TIA joost PS: i also do some splitting on the imap groups, but i doubt that has anything to do with the problems i'm seeing. anyway, just to be sure: #v+ (setq nnimap-split-inbox '("INBOX" "inbox")) (setq nnimap-split-rule '(("Fastmail" ("INBOX" (("INBOX.Lug Frankfurt" "Subject: .*LugFrankfurt")))) ("Uni Frankfurt" ("inbox" (("mail/LinguistList" "From: LINGUIST list")))))) #v- -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments