bug#59587: 28.2; gnus does not retrieve emails sent from another device

[Waleed Yousef]

Oh; but for the imap account Gnus keeps fetching all the emails again
and again! I have to remove this :predicate "1:*"


Waleed Yousef <wyousef@fcih.net> writes:

> Amazing!
>
> I just added added what you have suggested (:predicate "1:*") to the
> imap account I have; it fetched more than thousand emails, including
> those sent today. So, it is working now for imap. However, how can I do
> it for pop? The strange thing is that it was working until just weeks or
> months ago; what happened!!
>
> Just for your information, I will re-share my mail source settings:
>
> ```
>
>                                (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>                                           :user "wyousef@fcih.net"
>                                           :port 995
>                                           :stream ssl
>                           :leave non-nil)
>                                (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>                                           :user "wyousef@aucegypt.edu"
>                                           :port 995
>                                           :stream ssl
>                           :leave non-nil)
>                                (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>                                           :user "wyousef@gwmail.gwu.edu"
>                                           :port 995
>                                           :stream ssl
>                           :leave non-nil)
>                                (imap :server "mail.uvic.ca"
>                                      :user "wyousef@uvic.ca"
>                                      :port 993
>                            :predicate "1:*"
>                                      :stream ssl
>                            :mailbox ("inbox" "sent items")
>                            :fetchflag "\\Seen"
>                                            )
> ```
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> On 12/09/22 11:41 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> By default, Gnus only fetches UNSEEN (and UNDELETED) mails, so make sure
>>> the sending MUA does not mark the sent mail as SEEN.
>>
>> Thanks, Andreas, I was hoping it might be something like this.
>>
>> Waleed, can you see what marks are set on the sent mail? SEEN is
>> distinct from READ. You can also change the config for your imap mail
>> source, adding
>>
>> :predicate "1:*"
>>
>> see the "Mail Source Specifiers" section of the manual. That only
>> applies to imap mail sources, though.