Re: Gnus sometimes reports new messages but not showing them on IMAP server

Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> Thu, 09 May 2024 18:20:27 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Greg,

Greg Troxel <[email protected]> writes:

> Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> This makes much sense.  I'll try M-g the next time this happens.  Thanks
>> everyone!
>
> I had a situation where a message arrived in INBOX.  I could see it in
> the filesystem dovecot reads, and in other clients.  It was as if it did
> not exist in gnus.
>
> M-g on the group in *Group* buffer seems to have resolved that.
> It is interesting that moving out and back resolved what I think is the
> same situation in the past.
>
> Just making up stuff without basis:  It's like a missing wakeup in a
> synchronization protocol.
>
>

Unfortunately, it looks like it doesn't fix it for me, presumably
because I'm using nnimap instead of reading from a local mailbox.
Therefore it feels natural to assume a bug in nnimap, though it's still
years earlier before I can figure it out from the code, if that ever
happens :P

>> Also I would expect the equivalent of M-g to happen on startup so that
>> there are less surprises.
>
> Agreed, but I can see the point of not blowing caches just because of startup.

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Xiyue Deng