Re: Gnus with Emacs 23: gnus-gcc-mark-as-read not working anymore

[Stefan Kamphausen]

Hi David,

sorry for the delay.

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

> OK, I tested this with Emacs 23.1/Gnus v5.13 with the following minimal
> .gnus.el:
>

[...]

> It works for me. I get the following GCC header
>
> Gcc: nnml:mail.office.all nnml:mail.2009-09
>
> and when I send mail, it is marked as read and doesn't show up when I
> hit 'g'.
>
> In fact, when I comment out the call to gnus-group-short-name, it does
> not work anymore and I get a new article in both groups.

Interesting.  I just deinstalled Emacs 22 which was installed in
parallel to Emacs 23, which is possible on Gentoo, to exclude problems
with that.  To no avail.

> I don't know why you're seeing the exact opposite behavior. Please check
> if the articles actually get marked as read. You can do this by
> evaluating first
>
> (gnus-active "mail.office.all")
>
> which will give you the lowest and highest article number, and
>
> (gnus-info-read (gnus-get-info "mail.office.all"))
>
> which will give you the range of read articles. You should get something
> like (1 . 10) and ((1 . 10)), resp., with '10' being the highest article
> number in my case.
>
> Then send a message and immediately evaluate the above again. It should
> be something like (1 . 11) and ((1 . 11)).

I did as you suggested and the results are in the following transcript
of the *scratch*-buffer with lots of C-j's hit after the closing parens
to evaluate the code.

;; Before sending a mail
;; Please note that there are always messages in mail.office.all
;; marked as unread.  I use this to mark messages needing attention (I
;; also use ! for another purpose)
(gnus-active "mail.office.all")
(3 . 31806)

(gnus-info-read (gnus-get-info "mail.office.all"))
nil

(gnus-info-read (gnus-get-info "nnml:mail.office.all")) 
((1 . 28685) (28687 . 28971) (28974 . 30386) (30388 . 30399) (30401
. 30498) (30500 . 30849) (30851 . 31339) (31341 . 31504) (31506 . 31599)
(31601 . 31608) (31610 . 31636) (31638 . 31662) ...)

;; The other gcc group
(gnus-active "nnml:mail.2009-10")
(1 . 25)

(gnus-info-read (gnus-get-info "nnml:mail.2009-10"))
((1 . 25))

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; Now sending a mail to myself with Gcc-headers like this:
;; Gcc: nnml:mail.office.all nnml:mail.2009-10
(gnus-active "mail.office.all")
(3 . 31807)

(gnus-active "nnml:mail.2009-10")
(1 . 25) ; strange?

(gnus-info-read (gnus-get-info "nnml:mail.2009-10"))
((1 . 25))

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; Now getting mail by hitting 'g' in the Group buffer.  Please note,
;; that I deleted the mail I sent to myself via IMAP with another
;; mailclient to not interfer with results here
(gnus-active "mail.office.all")
(3 . 31807)

(gnus-active "nnml:mail.2009-10")
(1 . 26) ; stranger??

(gnus-info-read (gnus-get-info "nnml:mail.2009-10"))
((1 . 25)) ; strangest???

;; Both groups (mail.office.all and mail.2009-10) now show one more
;; message than before.


I would like to try with emacs -Q and a minimal gnus config file,
however, since I don't really know what is going on behind the scenes
(like .news.eld) I don't see how I could do that without interfering
with my production email setup.


Kind regards,
Stefan
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