Re: Agent in batch mode for imap

[William Gardella]

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com>
> writes:
>
>> I believe you also asked about my config for using gnus-agent-batch as a
>> cron job on the GNU Emacs help mailing list (or the gnu.emacs.help
>> newsgroup, as the case may be), so here it is.
>
> Thanks a lot. I tried merging the very few differences between your conf
> and mine but it didn't solve the problem. However I've finally been able
> to identify the problem with mine : I was splitting the messages on this
> imap account. So, in a nutshell :
>
> - imap + gnus-agent : works fine
>
> - imap with splitting + gnus-agent : every unread mail on the server
>   gets a duplicate in the Summary buffer every time the agent fetchs
>   when gnus runs unplugged. This duplicate disappears with C-g in the
>   Summary buffer when running gnus plugged.
>
>
> Is there a reason why splitting shouldn't be used when agent fetching ?
> Are some of you successfully using the agent in this manner ?

My understanding is that `nnmail-split-methods' which you're using in
your config is only for the `nnmail' backend, which (confusingly
enough), can use IMAP as a source of mail.  But if you are using IMAP,
you want to look instead at (info "(gnus) Client-Side IMAP Splitting").
Other than that I see no reason why the agent shouldn't work.

-WGG