Re: Emacs trunk and Gnus master are fully sync'd now

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:44:30 +0200, David Engster <address@hidden> wrote:
>Lars Ingebrigtsen writes:
>>address@hidden (Giorgos Keramidas) writes:
>>> The next time I start Gnus it tries to do an 'initial sync of 129
>>> groups' all over again, and this delays startup time a lot.
>>
>> Yes, this is the bug that has made me want to not merge that bit of Ma
>> Gnus into bzr Emacs.  I still have no fix for it.
>
> I cannot reproduce this anymore in Dovecot after my change which keeps
> empty 'unexist' ranges. So the question is why it still happens with
> GMail.
>
> @Giorgos: Does it only happen on startup or also sometimes when you
> press 'g'?

Yes, this happens sometimes when I press 'g' too.  I tried letting Gnus
load all the Gmail groups, and then type 'M-g' in each one of them.
This temporarily fixes the 'initial sync for all groups' problem, but
then it happens again when I restart Gnus.

> AFAICS in `nnimap-retrieve-group-data-early', the resync should only
> happen when there's either no 'active', 'unexist', or
> 'uidvalidity'. Perhaps the first step should be to install some verbose
> messaging which says which of those triggers the resync.

I can try that.  Thanks for the pointer.