Re: Fixed a bug in nnimap-0.37

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

Matt Armstrong <mattdav+matt@best.com> writes:

> Recently I've noticed that my tick marks (!) have been slowly
> vanishing.  I typically have between 5-20 messages in each group
> ticked so I can deal with them later.  Losing my tick marks tends to
> make me look bad -- it is essentially my to-do list.

Yuk, same here. Thanks for the patch.

> P.S. This exacerbates a fear I have about how the way nnimap
> maintains the marks on the IMAP server.  Maybe the backend should
> keep a "dribble file" of all the (hopefully user requested) mark
> changes made while the group is open and use that at group close
> time to write out IMAP marks?

Yup. I've been thinking about this too. The request-update-mark way of
setting marks we used a few versions back worked this way. But it
really wasn't the right way to do it.

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