Re: nnimap questions

[Michael Hirsch <hirsch@mathcs.emory.edu>]

Tim Culver wrote, quoting Kai Großjohann's suggestions for making
nnimap act like other imap clients (quoted below).  They were very
good suggestions.  I ended up using the latter suggestion.  The read
flag used by nnimap is the deleted flag on my imap server, which
interacts badly with my other imap clients.  Using the "ticked when
read" method makes the other mail clients see the messages as flagged,
which is not so bad.

Thanks a bunch, this is what I was looking for.  I suggest putting
Kai's response in the documentation.

--Michael

Tim Culver <culver@cs.unc.edu> writes:

> >> Suppose I want to use gnus to act a little more like a mail reader
> >> when it's reading mail: I want all articles to be, by default,
> >> "persistent" or "ticked".  Nothing should ever disappear from the
> >> summary except by, say, expiration (or some other form of explicit
> >> deletion).
> 
> >>>>> "kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> answered:
> 
> kai> Two choices.  One is to tell Gnus to also display those articles
> kai> marked as read instead of hiding them.  Customize the group
> kai> parameters (with `G c') and frob the `display' parameter to
> kai> `all'.  (Please note that Gnus doesn't delete the articles marked
> kai> as read, it only hides them.  Unless you're using total-expire,
> kai> that is.)
> 
> kai> The other choice would be something like this:
> 
> kai> (defun tc-gnus-summary-mark-unread-as-ticked () "Intended to be
> kai> used by `gnus-summary-mark-article-hook'."  (when (memq
> kai> gnus-current-article gnus-newsgroup-unreads)
> kai> (gnus-summary-mark-article gnus-current-article
> kai> gnus-ticked-mark))) (setq gnus-mark-article-hook
> kai> 'tc-gnus-summary-mark-unread-as-ticked)
> 
> kai> This means that reading a message ticks it rather than marking it
> kai> as read.  This might be extended to do different things in
> kai> different groups.
> 
> (Apologies for sc-auto-fill-region-p on the elisp)
> 
> I did the former ("diplay all") and gnus suddenly feels MUCH more like 
> a mail reader.  


-- 
Michael