I'm observing something rather weird with the seen mark and my mails. Let me try to explain:
I can see that the mark is stored in my .newsrc.eld file, among others, like expire, or reply. However, when I start gnus, all mark related entries are loaded into gnus-newsrc-alist, except seen. If I call gnus-read-newsrc-file after that, the seen marks appear in that alist as well and all is fine. Well almost. Whenever I run gnus-group-get-new-news after that, all seen marks disappear, from the alist as well as from the .newsrc.eld file. AFAICT this happens exclusively to the seen mark, all other marks preserved correctly either in the .newsrc.eld file or the maildir backend (e.g. read, expire). This also happens only to maildir groups, not nntp groups. Their seen mark is stored and loaded. I don't know how other mail backends would behave. I only have a single nnmaildir backend (and nntp) and no actual mail sources. I was also able to replicate this on a minimal gnus init file. With no settings other that the select method. I'm not even sure this is a bug or just intended default behavior. I tried searching all relevant gnus and emacs mailing lists and google, but didn't come up with anything. If you're curious why this is actually a such problem for me: I only noticed it when I set up spam.el to check my mail for spam when entering the summary. It works beautifully, with the exception that it checks all my mail over and over again, unless that seen mark is preserved and gnus-newsgroup-seen set correctly. I really appreciate any help with this and sorry for the rather longish post. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
