William Gardella <[email protected]> writes: > Daniel Corbe <[email protected]> writes: > >> I hope this is the right place to ask for general advice. gnus makes an >> awesome news reader and with all the performance gains with the version >> of gnus distributed with emacs24 I'd like to use it as an IMAP mail >> reader as well. >> >> I need gnus to behave in a cooperative way with other IMAP clients. >> gnus is marking entire folders as read as soon as I open them >> up in the group summary buffer. This is undesirable behavior, because >> then my other IMAP clients also show the message marked as read. >> >> Can someone point me in the right direction? I'd like to be able to >> manually toggle the read status of a message or even have it done >> automatically -- but only after I've viewed the message. >> >> -Daniel > > Daniel, > > Could we see your setup? How are you accessing IMAP mail? > > I use my two IMAP accounts as secondary select methods and they don't > mark mail as read (technically, set the IMAP Seen flag) until I have either > actually read them or told Gnus to mark them as read. The two accounts > are set up like this: > > > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > '((nnimap "imap.pitt.edu" > (nnimap-server-port 993) > (nnimap-stream ssl) > (nnir-search-engine imap)) > (nnimap "imap.gmail.com" > (nnimap-server-port 993) > (nnimap-stream ssl) > (nnir-search-engine imap)))) > > I have experienced behavior like you describe when experimenting with > Fetchmail as an IMAP retrieval agent, however. Fetchmail rudely sets > Seen when it fetches. It's a very good reason not to use Fetchmail for > IMAP; if you like that sort of utility, better to use getmail or > offlineimap, which behave more properly from an IMAP standpoint.
I had the sort of the opposite configuration in place. nnimap was my primary select method. Making nnimap my secondary select method seems to have stopped it from making *eveything* in my IMAP folder as read; however, now nothing is being marked as read after I read the mail message. For posterity, here's all my gnus-affecting settings: (custom-set-variables '(send-mail-function (quote smtpmail-send-it)) '(smtpmail-smtp-server "smtpcorp.com") '(smtpmail-smtp-service 2525)) (setq user-mail-address "[email protected]") (setq user-full-name "Daniel Corbe") (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "us.news.astraweb.com")) (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnimap "apollo.corbe.net" (nnimap-address "apollo.corbe.net") (nnimap-authenticator login) (nnimap-server-port 1143) (nnimap-stream network) (nnimap-expunge-on-close 'never)))) (setq gnus-mime-display-multipart-related-as-mixed nil) (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m) (setq mm-inline-text-html-with-images t) (setq mm-inline-text-html-with-w3m-keymap nil) _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
