Re: problem making new groups?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

radford@robby.caltech.edu (Jim Radford) writes:

> > It's being fixed in the re-written nnimap by using a local file to
> > store the name of subscribed mailboxes and compare it to what's on the
> > server when it connects.
> 
> Simon, have you considered using IMAP's [UN]SUBSCRIBE for this?  I know
> that the UWash server just puts the list in a local file,  but it seems
> more "the IMAP way" to centralize this on the server.  That way nnimap
> can resonstruct its whole state from the server.

Yup, nnimap should gnus-subscribe to all imap-subscribed mailboxes. It
should not gnus-unsubscribe to imap-unsubscribed mailboxes IMHO (see
my next mail for a different solution to this).

It doesn't solve the problem of subscribing to new mailboxes though (I
think?), but it's part of that.