Gnus agent doesn't work for me (WAS RE: using the Gnus Agent together with nnimap)

["Dave Cohen" <dcohen@webmethods.com>]

Am I the only one who can't get this to work?

Here's what I try.  From the Group buffer,
I "J s" to download my mail, it takes some time doing this.
Then I hit "J j" to toggle to unplugged.
Then I visit a group, to find that all the unread mail has a '@' flag next
to it.  I try to view these messages, but it only flags them with a "%"
indicating ready to download.

If I restart gnus while I am not connected to the net, I see my group list
with "*" where the number of unread messages should be.  And if I try to
visit any of those groups, it says, "Couldn't open server"  Even though I am
definately in unplugged mode.

I thought the agent stuff just didn't work with nnimap, but apparently
others are having no problems.  I'd love to get to the root of this problem.
Because of the problems reading mail offline I've taken to using Outlook on
my laptop.  It's horrible.  Rescue me please!

my .gnus is attached.  Thanks.

-Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nnimap@vic20.globalcom.se
> [mailto:owner-nnimap@vic20.globalcom.se]On Behalf Of Christian Lynbech
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 4:58 PM
> To: nnimap@extundo.com
> Subject: using the Gnus Agent together with nnimap
>
>
> Has anybody experience in using nnimap together with the Gnus Agent?
>
> My problem is demonstrated in the following session:
>
>    - plug in, get new mail/news (key `g'), update agent (key `J s')
>
>    - unplug, read mail and news
>
>    - plug back in, synchronize agent (key `J S')
>
> If I then hit `g', all the read mail reappears while the news folders
> stays as the were left during offline reading.
>
> My hunch is something in the manner of the following: nntp trusts the
> .newsrc numbers while nnimap trusts message flags in the underlying
> IMAP folders. If this is right, then either it should be possible to
> force nnimap to go by .newsrc contents or there should be some
> explicit synchronization of the IMAP folder at `J S' time.
>
>
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