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

[Waleed Yousef <wyousef@fcih.net>]

Thanks so much.

In fact, this problem happens even with pop3 emails. When I send an email, using a pop account, either from Outlook or Mail (both are apps on iphone), the email is saved in the app and I can see it on the webmail in the folder sent, but Gnus cannot fetch the email. However, if I send from the webmail Gnus fetches it!!

So, in both cases the email is saved to the folder sent of the pop account!!

> On Dec 6, 2022, at 4:10 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> 
> Waleed Yousef <wyousef@fcih.net> writes:
> 
>> One more piece of clue: I installed outlook on my iphone to experiment with, as a replacement of “Mail app” of iphone. The same problem exist, i.e., when I send an email with outlook, gnus does not fetch it. 
> 
> Can you confirm that the Outlook app saves your sent message in the app?
> What's the name of the folder the send mail is saved to?
> 
> My guess is that the account in question is the one you're using as an
> imap mail source. When you use imap as a mail source, Gnus will only
> fetch mails from the folders named in the :mailbox setting, which
> defaults to "INBOX". So I'm guessing that the mail is being saved into
> "Sent" or something like that, but Gnus does not fetch mail from there.
> 
> If it's true that this is the imap account, then try changing the
> mail-source definition to:
> 
> (imap :server "mail.uvic.ca"
>      :user "wyousef@uvic.ca"
>      :port 993
>      :stream ssl
>      :mailbox ("INBOX" "Sent")
>      )
> 
> Replacing "Sent" with whatever the actual name of the sent mail folder
> is.
> 
> Alternately (and in my mind preferably), access the imap account using a
> full nnimap server backend. Then you'll see everything, and get two-way
> sync.
> 
> Eric
> 
>>>> On Dec 1, 2022, at 9:16 AM, Waleed Yousef <wyousef@fcih.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks again for your time,
>>> 
>>> I have four emails, three are pop3 and one is imap. I am using nnml. This is my gnus.el part:
>>> 
>>> ```
>>> (setq mail-sources `(
>>>                        (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>>>                               :user "wyousef@fcih.net"
>>>                               :port 995
>>>                               :stream ssl)
>>>                        (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>>>                               :user "wyousef@aucegypt.edu"
>>>                               :port 995
>>>                               :stream ssl)
>>>                        (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
>>>                               :user "wyousef@gwmail.gwu.edu"
>>>                               :port 995
>>>                               :stream ssl)
>>>                        (imap :server "mail.uvic.ca"
>>>                                :user "wyousef@uvic.ca"
>>>                                :port 993
>>>                                :stream ssl
>>>                               )
>>>                        )
>>>     gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gnus.org")
>>>     gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))
>>> 
>>>     user-mail-address "wyousef@fcih.net"
>>>     user-full-name "Waleed Yousef"
>>>     send-mail-function        'smtpmail-send-it
>>>     message-send-mail-function    'smtpmail-send-it
>>>     smtpmail-smtp-server        "smtp.gmail.com"
>>>     smtpmail-smtp-service             '587
>>> )
>>> ```
>>> 
>>> Another piece of information is that I am using spacemacs, which I do not think it will make any difference as its maintainers confirmed to me that they did not change anything with gnus
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks so much.
>>> 
>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Waleed Yousef <wyousef@fcih.net> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks so much for your reply. After I read your reply, I did several
>>>>> experiments and found that the problem does not happen (that is, Gnus
>>>>> pulls the sent messages) if I send from the webmail interface of a
>>>>> pop3 email, e.g., using chrome to send from my gmail account. In that
>>>>> case Gnus will pull the sent email. However, if the email is sent from
>>>>> my iphone (whether IMAP or pop3 account) or even from a webmail
>>>>> interface of an IMAP account, Gnus does not pull the sent email
>>>>> although the email is indeed saved in the sent box (I go online and
>>>>> check).
>>>> 
>>>> This still isn't enough information to help you. How is Gnus fetching
>>>> mail for this account? Is it an nnimap backend, or some other mail
>>>> backend using a mail source?