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Re: wrong unread count on imap server synced with offlineimap
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Dan Christensen |
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Re: wrong unread count on imap server synced with offlineimap |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:31:44 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
On Feb 11, 2018, Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> wrote:
> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>
>> I don't think your set-up makes sense. I don't think it is possible
>> for offlineimap to ensure that the two IMAP servers use the same
>> internal message numbers when it copies messages. And Gnus uses
>> these numbers to track things like unread status, so you shouldn't
>> use the same .newsrc.eld for the two servers. If you don't
>> synchronize the .newsrc.eld, things should work fine.
>
> But only if I synchronize the .newsrc.eld file can I get the
> tick/dormant and so one flags consistent between the two machines
The following explains how to make offlineimap sync the custom
gnus flags:
https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/wiki/Syncing-custom-tags
> not to mention the nnml groups I also use.
That's a harder problem. But if you use different server names for
the IMAP servers on the two machines, then maybe synchronizing the
.newsrc.eld won't cause a problem with IMAP.
Dan