From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus not showing all mails
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2015 06:01:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8vcdho6.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lhexx9o0.fsf@posteo.de
henry atting <atts.henry@gmail.com> writes:
>> henry atting <atts.henry@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> All of a sudden gnus (Ma Gnus v0.12) only shows a part of the mails lying
>>> on the imap server. Currently there are 8, mutt displays them all; gnus
>>> only shows 5. Restarting, reloading, `/o`... nothing helps, I only get 5
>>> mails. When I send me a test mail the new mail is displayed
>>> nevertheless.
>>>
>>> Don't know how to further investigate this problem.
>>
>> Sometimes what works is going into the group parameters ("G p" on the
>> group), deleting the "active" line, C-c C-c to exit, then go back to the
>> group line and press "M-g" to refresh that particular group. I find that
>> if I'm using multiple clients (Gnus or not) on an imap server, Gnus
>> doesn't automatically refresh read message marks from the server, and
>> these steps are necessary to make it do that. Give it a try, and let us
>> know?
>
>
> Great! – Yes, it works. All the messages are there. Strange, I am using
> gnus for 10 years know, mostly in combination with mutt, but never had
> this kind of problem. But on the other hand there is always a first
> time...
I've only seen it when read marks are changed behind Gnus' back, from
another client. I opened this bug report a while ago, and at some point
will find some time to try out some solutions...
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20004
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2015-07-03 8:19 Gnus not showing all mails henry atting
2015-07-03 13:39 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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2015-07-03 20:34 ` henry atting
2015-07-03 22:01 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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