From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Remembering read mail
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:20:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pqzxhl3y.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3vxzx73.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> I'm a new gnus user, and have got things sorted to the point where I can
> check multiple accounts, send via multiple SMTP servers (msmtp), and
> read this newsgroup via gnus (I won't know if I'm able to post until I
> send this). I haven't switched away from Evolution (I'm on Ubuntu Lucid)
> because of a bunch of little confusions/trepidations, but I'm getting
> close.
> One thing stopping me is the article summary list. I'm finding it very
> confusing to look at, largely because the "read" status of messages is
> not remembered between Gnus invocations. Every time I open the group all
> the messages are unmarked. As I read them they turn bright blue-green
> and get a "R" in the margin. Next time I open the group they're all
> unmarked again.
> This seems backwards to me: shouldn't unread messages be marked
> specially, then unmarked as you read them? And then that status
> remembered somehow?
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
Do you use q to exit the summary buffer?
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-11 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-11 10:21 Eric Abrahamsen
2010-06-11 11:20 ` Tim Landscheidt [this message]
2010-06-11 11:35 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-06-11 17:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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