Re: Weird behavior of nnimap email

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Klaus Uhl <news@u-h-l.de> writes:

> nospam@nospam.com writes:
>
>> It seems that sometimes gnus does not display all the email in my nnimap
>> folder. Even when I use "C-u enter" to display all the mails in that group,
>> I can still see that some mails are missing when comparing the list using
>> pine. 
>>
>> On the other hand, for some emails, also gnus does display them in the
>> summary buffer, when I select, it says that the mail is gone (either expired
>> or deleted). But again, in pine, it can be displayed without any problem. 
>>
>> I am not sure what caused this problem. (I tried both gnus-5.10.6 and
>> ngnus-0.1 and got the same problem.)
>
> I had a similar problem wile I moved my mail from nnfolder to
> nnimap. I had deleted several messages in a nnimap folder but Gnus
> insisted in showing them anyway.
>
> It turned out to be a problem with the Gnus agent. I could resolve the
> problem by simply deleting the News/agent/nnimap folder so that Gnus
> was forced to reread the complete contents of my mailboxes from the
> IMAP server.
>
> Maybe such a brute force "hack" resolves your problem too.
>

You are totally right. After removing that, everything works fine now. 

>> Could you gurus please help me out?
>
> I would not consider me a guru but if my tip helps it's for good
> anyway, I think ;-).

Thanks a lot. Yes, you are a guru. :)

>
> -- Klaus