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24.1.50; IMAP flags not synchronized from IMAP to Gnus

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From: Luca Capello <luca <at> pca.it>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.1.50; IMAP flags not synchronized from IMAP to Gnus
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:35:13 +0200

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Hi there!

I just switched my `gnus-select-method' from nnnil to nnimap, with the
latter previously in `gnus-secondary-select-methods':

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
 ;; servers
 (setq
- gnus-select-method '(nnnil)
+ gnus-select-method '(nnimap "home.pca.it"
+                             (nnimap-expunge nil))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Exiting Gnus & Emacs, restarting both and I had to wait for the
subscription to all my IMAP folders (more than 1000) and also for the
initial sync of all of them.  Then, I discovered that I have each folder
twice, one with "nnimap+home.pca.it:" and one without.  Even worse, the
flags in the "without" IMAP folders are not synchronized *from* IMAP to
Gnus, while they are on the other way around.

Here how my `*Group*' buffer looks like:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
[ Gnus -- 485901+917 ]
     419+1: INBOX
    9887+0: Junk
     351+0: Sent
[...]
  [ mail -- 966+61 ]
       109+0: nndraft:drafts
        17+0: nnimap+home.pca.it:Drafts
       396+22: nnimap+home.pca.it:INBOX
        16+0: nnimap+home.pca.it:Junk
       138+9: nnimap+home.pca.it:Sent
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

And the `*Server*' buffer:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
     {nnfolder:archive} (opened)
     {nndraft:} (opened)
     {nndoc:gnus-help} (opened)
     {nntp:news.gmane.org} (opened)
     {nnml:} (opened)
     {nnimap:home.pca.it} (opened)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Obviously, the above is wrong for two reasons: first, I do not want to
see each folder twice (so Gnus should automatically "merge" the with
"nnimap+home.pca.it:" and without) and, second, I do not want to set
*again* each flag for all the emails (as you can read, almost 500k).

I do not think I did something wrong, but feel free to point me in the
right direction.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca


In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
 of 2012-06-15 on zelenka, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 2:20120615-1)
Configured using:
 `configure '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--host' 'x86_64-linux-gnu'
 '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
 '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
 '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
 '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
 '--without-compress-info' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/'
 '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-imagemagick=yes'
 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu'
 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g
 -Wl,--as-needed -znocombreloc' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MONETARY: fr_CH.UTF-8
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  gnus-topic-mode: t
  gpm-mouse-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-c ESC f g ESC x d DEL e m a TAB b u TAB TAB TAB DEL 
DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL r e p o r TAB e 
m TAB b u TAB RET

Recent messages:
nnimap read 428k from home.pca.it (initial sync of 1 group; please wait)
nnimap read 488k from home.pca.it (initial sync of 1 group; please wait)
nnimap read 542k from home.pca.it (initial sync of 1 group; please wait)
nnimap read 600k from home.pca.it (initial sync of 1 group; please wait)
nnimap read 662k from home.pca.it (initial sync of 1 group; please wait)
nnimap read 720k from home.pca.it (initial sync of 1 group; please wait)
Reading active file via nnml...done
Reading active file via nndraft...done
Checking new news...done
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/context-en hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/context-en
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/tex-style hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-style
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/texmathp hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/texmathp
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/tex-jp hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-jp
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/latex hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/latex
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/tex-buf hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-buf
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/context-nl hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/context-nl
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/toolbar-x hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/toolbar-x
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fold hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fold
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/tex-info hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-info
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/tex hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/tex-font hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-font
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/context hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/context
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/multi-prompt hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/multi-prompt
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fptex hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fptex
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/tex-bar hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-bar
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/auctex/tex-mik hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-mik
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
~/.emacs.d/elisp/fortune hides /usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/lisp/play/fortune

Features:
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utf-7 gnutls network-stream starttls nnimap parse-time tls utf7 netrc
gnus-agent gnus-srvr gnus-score score-mode nnvirtual gnus-cache ielm
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ratpoisonrc-mode cl-macs generic generic-x gismo-emacs gismo-modes
battery time ido paren eldoc gismo-w3m w3m-search w3m-session
gismo-popup gismo-planner bbdb-anniv timeclock view mule-util cal-china
lunar solar cal-dst cal-bahai cal-islam cal-hebrew holidays hol-loaddefs
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mailheader nnoo gnus gnus-ems nnheader mail-utils wid-edit gnus-BTS
gismo-files gismo-eshell gismo-erc erc-stamp erc-log erc-dcc erc-goodies
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emacs-goodies-loaddefs easy-mmode dpkg-dev-el dpkg-dev-el-loaddefs
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vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs
button faces cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64
format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote make-network-process dbusbind dynamic-setting
system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x
multi-tty emacs)

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Message #8 received at 11723 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Luca Capello <luca <at> pca.it>
Cc: 11723 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11723: 24.1.50; IMAP flags not synchronized from IMAP to Gnus
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:40:10 +0200

Luca Capello <luca <at> pca.it> writes:

> Exiting Gnus & Emacs, restarting both and I had to wait for the
> subscription to all my IMAP folders (more than 1000) and also for the
> initial sync of all of them.  Then, I discovered that I have each folder
> twice, one with "nnimap+home.pca.it:" and one without.

Yes, that's to be expected, and isn't a bug.

> Even worse, the flags in the "without" IMAP folders are not
> synchronized *from* IMAP to Gnus, while they are on the other way
> around.

That sounds like a bug, though.  What does `G E' on one of these groups
look like?  And does `M-g' fix anything?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no  *  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Message #11 received at 11723 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Luca Capello <luca <at> pca.it>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 11723 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11723: 24.1.50; IMAP flags not synchronized from IMAP to Gnus
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:23:22 +0200

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Hi there!

On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:40:10 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Luca Capello <luca <at> pca.it> writes:
>
>> Exiting Gnus & Emacs, restarting both and I had to wait for the
>> subscription to all my IMAP folders (more than 1000) and also for the
>> initial sync of all of them.  Then, I discovered that I have each folder
>> twice, one with "nnimap+home.pca.it:" and one without.
>
> Yes, that's to be expected, and isn't a bug.

Do you care to elaborate why this is not a bug?  Both declarations are
for nnimap, with the same name, which means that they are the same: I
found very strange that they are actually not simply because

>> Even worse, the flags in the "without" IMAP folders are not
>> synchronized *from* IMAP to Gnus, while they are on the other way
>> around.
>
> That sounds like a bug, though.  What does `G E' on one of these groups
> look like?  And does `M-g' fix anything?

I am sorry, but by error at the beginning of July I started from scratch
because I deleted my whole ~/Mail folder.  I now use syncmaildir
<http://syncmaildir.sourceforge.net/> with a local Dovecot because of
#8055.  I have not found the time yet to try Magnus Henoch's patch,
which has not landed in the unofficial Debian emacs-snapshot
(2:20121009-1), whose `emacs-version' says:

  GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of
  2012-10-09 on dex, modified by Debian

Feel free to close this bug since I am not able to provide any more
useful information.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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Message #18 received at 11723 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Luca Capello <luca <at> pca.it>
Cc: 11723 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11723: 24.1.50; IMAP flags not synchronized from IMAP to Gnus
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 16:03:57 +0100

Luca Capello <luca <at> pca.it> writes:

> On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:40:10 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> Luca Capello <luca <at> pca.it> writes:
>>
>>> Exiting Gnus & Emacs, restarting both and I had to wait for the
>>> subscription to all my IMAP folders (more than 1000) and also for the
>>> initial sync of all of them.  Then, I discovered that I have each folder
>>> twice, one with "nnimap+home.pca.it:" and one without.
>>
>> Yes, that's to be expected, and isn't a bug.

Groups from secondary methods get prefixed, and primary ones don't.  You
had all the groups from one, and then you got all the groups from the
other...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no  *  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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