Re: Problems with 0.3.2

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

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

> When close-group is called with read ((1 . 16)) it tries to set the
> \Seen mark for articles 1 and 2 which of course don't exist.  This is
> OK except next time you compute the marks you don't get any marks for
> non-existent articles, which for "read" means unread.  I guess that as
> long as Gnus knows that the lowest article is 3, which it should if
> you use the 'slow method for request list, then things should work.

I use the 'slow method.

> So the question is: Does Gnus know this?  If it does then there is a
> bug in Gnus.  

After some testing with other backends (nnfolder specifically) I've
came to the understanding that in Gnus-world it's possible to have
read a non-existant article. That's bad.

> > >  o Gnus has other information besides read, ticked, and replied that
> > >    would be usefull to keep on the server.  Any ideas on where to
> > >    store it?
> 
> > IMAP support MUA-specific article marks, which we could use. Exactly
> > what information where you thinking about?
> 
> Gnus has a big list of marks including: bookmark, dormant

Was your article cut here?

/S