Re: nnimap mails being marked old before I ever see them

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:36:30 -0400 John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> wrote: 

JS> Nicolas KOWALSKI <niko@petole.demisel.net> writes:
>> I have this sometimes when I use another MUA to access my mailboxes.
>> To fix it, I make Gnus resync itself completely against the IMAP
>> server, and it works each time; it can take a long time depending of
>> the groups sizes, but as I maintain them short, it is not much burden.
>> Here is what I do:
>> 

JS> Hm, thanks. This is happening even though I'm not using another MUA to
JS> access this mailbox. I also have agent disabled, so the steps you
JS> outline for clearing the agent data shouldn't matter for me.

The marks may be out of sync because the message numbers got redone on
the server.  Can you look at your newsrc.eld file and compare to the
article numbers on your IMAP server?  You should be able to get at least
some from the IMAP log (set imap-log and imap-debug to t).

Ted