* How does Gnus decide to mark email as 'read'?
@ 2009-04-05 16:07 Giorgos Keramidas
2009-04-07 18:03 ` Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
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From: Giorgos Keramidas @ 2009-04-05 16:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
I've been having on and off a problem with Gnus that makes it a bit hard
to track groups with new email.
I use fetchmail to pull email from various email accounts and save them
to `~/Mailbox'. Then the following select methods to periodically pull
them into Gnus for reading and replying:
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.sunsite.dk"))
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")))
Most of the time things work fine, and I see new email messages in the
*Group* buffer. But sometimes, Gnus pulls emails from `~/Mailbox' and
spools them into existing `nnml:mail.*' groups as ``already read''.
When this happens, typing `g' in the *Group* buffer shows no new mail.
Messages that I haven't really read have been saved in a group like
`nnml:mail.freebsd.arch' but I can only see them if I manually visit
each group with `C-u RET' and look for `O' marks like the last two
messages in the snippet below:
E 2009-04-03: Kamlesh Patel ( 37) GSoC 2009 Project proposal Review
E 2009-04-03: Sylvestre Gallon ( 66) +->
E 2009-04-04: Ivan Voras ( 47) +->
O 2009-04-05: Sujit K M ( 20) `->
O 2009-04-05: Ivan Voras ( 34) `->
How does Gnus decide that these are already `read' messages? Is there
any way to fix this, sort of saving my nnml folder archive, blowing it
away and selectively restoring `nnml:mail.*' groups?
FWIW, I am using Gnus v5.13 in a relatively recent snapshot of CVS Emacs
23.0.92.1 (i386-unknown-freebsd8.0, GTK+ Version 2.14.7) of 2009-04-05.
But this has been happening on and off for a while, even with Emacs 22
so it may be something that is broken with my `nnml:mail.*' archive.
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* Re: How does Gnus decide to mark email as 'read'?
2009-04-05 16:07 How does Gnus decide to mark email as 'read'? Giorgos Keramidas
@ 2009-04-07 18:03 ` Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
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From: Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson @ 2009-04-07 18:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
> How does Gnus decide that these are already `read' messages? Is
> there any way to fix this, sort of saving my nnml folder archive,
> blowing it away and selectively restoring `nnml:mail.*' groups?
There is mark-and-expunge in scoring, though it sounds like that is
not what's happening to you.
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