Re: gnus doesn't see all new messages

[Jeroen Dijkmans]

Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com> writes:

> * Jeroen Dijkmans <jeroen.dijkmans@alcatel.be> wrote:
>> Jeroen Dijkmans <jeroen.dijkmans@alcatel.be> writes:
>
>>> I'm experiencing the following problem since last week in gnus (version
>>> 5.10.6, xemacs 21.4 (patch 13) on Windows):
>   ^^^^^^
>    
>>> Not all new messages in my Inbox on the IMAP server appear in the
>>> corresponding "gnus_IMAP_inbox".  I noticed this by starting the Mozilla
>>> mail-client and connecting to the IMAP server: a number of messages
>>> appear there which I don't see in Gnus.
>
>> I normally fetch my new mails by pressing g in the Group buffer.  When
>> doing that, I have the behaviour I described in my previous posts.
>> However, if I'm in the summary buffer of my IMAP Inbox, and press M-g
>> overthere, the new messages *do* appear!
>
> I presume that your primary select method is nntp and your secondary
> select method is nnimap:

Yes, indeed.

> Probably you are facing the same problem I had some time ago and which
> caused a huge thread on the Gnus mailing list to find out the reason for
> this "bug".
>
> You could try 2 things:
>
> 2) If (1) fixes the problem you can upgrade again to the current
>    version. Now check what type your nnimap groups are. If they are
>    "foreign", unsubscribe and kill them. Then hit "A A" and start
>    subscribing them again. They should now be "secondary" and everything
>    should be fine again.

I don't know whether my IMAP box was subscribed as foreign: I deleted it
last week and recreated it again (via U), and my problem seems to be
gone.  Reading your problem, I think mine is indeed related, but I
cannot explain why the IMAP box would be subscribed one time as foreign
and the next time not (I always used U to subscribe to a group).

To be honest however, I must admit that I've been messing around with my
IMAP configuration lately:  in a trial to have a "clean" situation, I
was deleting all references to my IMAP server in .newsrc.eld, removing
all the directories under ~/News and ~/Mail referring to IMAP.  It was
after I did this, and recreated my IMAP box again, I got the problems
described above.

However, as saind above: deleting the subscription from withing Gnus (S
k) and recreating it (U), seems to have solved the problem.


Thanks for thinking along,


Jeroen

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