Re: gnus in an IMAP multi-client setup.

[Daniel Corbe]

William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com> writes:

> Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net> writes:
>
>> I hope this is the right place to ask for general advice.  gnus makes an
>> awesome news reader and with all the performance gains with the version
>> of gnus distributed with emacs24 I'd like to use it as an IMAP mail
>> reader as well.
>>
>> I need gnus to behave in a cooperative way with other IMAP clients.
>> gnus is marking entire folders as read as soon as I open them
>> up in the group summary buffer.  This is undesirable behavior, because
>> then my other IMAP clients also show the message marked as read.
>>
>> Can someone point me in the right direction?  I'd like to be able to
>> manually toggle the read status of a message or even have it done
>> automatically -- but only after I've viewed the message.
>>
>> -Daniel
>
> Daniel,
>
> Could we see your setup?  How are you accessing IMAP mail?
>
> I use my two IMAP accounts as secondary select methods and they don't
> mark mail as read (technically, set the IMAP Seen flag) until I have either
> actually read them or told Gnus to mark them as read.  The two accounts
> are set up like this:
>
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '((nnimap "imap.pitt.edu"
>                  (nnimap-server-port 993)
>                  (nnimap-stream ssl)
>                  (nnir-search-engine imap))
>         (nnimap "imap.gmail.com"
>                  (nnimap-server-port 993)
>                  (nnimap-stream ssl)
>                  (nnir-search-engine imap))))
>
> I have experienced behavior like you describe when experimenting with
> Fetchmail as an IMAP retrieval agent, however.  Fetchmail rudely sets
> Seen when it fetches.  It's a very good reason not to use Fetchmail for
> IMAP; if you like that sort of utility, better to use getmail or
> offlineimap, which behave more properly from an IMAP standpoint.

I had the sort of the opposite configuration in place.  nnimap was my
primary select method.  Making nnimap my secondary select method seems
to have stopped it from making *eveything* in my IMAP folder as read;
however, now nothing is being marked as read after I read the mail message.

For posterity, here's all my gnus-affecting settings:

(custom-set-variables
 '(send-mail-function (quote smtpmail-send-it))
 '(smtpmail-smtp-server "smtpcorp.com")
 '(smtpmail-smtp-service 2525))

(setq user-mail-address "corbe@corbe.net")
(setq user-full-name "Daniel Corbe")

(setq gnus-select-method
      '(nntp "us.news.astraweb.com"))

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnimap "apollo.corbe.net"
               (nnimap-address "apollo.corbe.net")
               (nnimap-authenticator login)
               (nnimap-server-port 1143)
               (nnimap-stream network)
               (nnimap-expunge-on-close 'never))))

(setq gnus-mime-display-multipart-related-as-mixed nil)
(setq mm-text-html-renderer 'w3m)
(setq mm-inline-text-html-with-images t)
(setq mm-inline-text-html-with-w3m-keymap nil)