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

Greg Troxel <[email protected]> writes:

> Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> 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
>
> This was nnimap in my case, with emacs and dovecot on the same machine
> if that matters.
>
>

Ah I see.  Then probably the IMAP implementation of Outlook is just bad
;-)

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Xiyue Deng