Re: gnus: 'active' file for nnml:* getting out of sync

[Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:28:51 +0100, Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> wrote:
> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 16 2010, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>
>>> I have noticed with a relatively recent trunk copy that if I compress
>>> nnml folders with 'G z' of if I compact the entire nnml server in the
>>> server buffer, by typing '^', then close and reopen Gnus a few times,
>>> then new messages are marked as already 'old' ('O' marker) even if they
>>> just arrived in the particular nnml folder.
>>
>> Seems like a bug in the nnml compaction feature.  Didier?
>
> Been a while since I touched it (I'm using nnimap now) but I'll try to
> look at it.
>
> Giorgos, what do you mean by "new": do you mean unread messages that are
> here before compaction, or messages that arrive afterwards ?

Messages that arrive afterwards.  The steps I have to follow to
reproduce this are:

  1. Compact an nnml folder with 'G z'.
  2. Get new messages with 'g'.

I would expect the newly arrived messages to be marked as '.' when I
enter the folder and not be marked as 'old'.  But they are.