Hi there! I just switched my `gnus-select-method' from nnnil to nnimap, with the latter previously in `gnus-secondary-select-methods': --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ;; servers (setq - gnus-select-method '(nnnil) + gnus-select-method '(nnimap "home.pca.it" + (nnimap-expunge nil)) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Exiting Gnus & Emacs, restarting both and I had to wait for the subscription to all my IMAP folders (more than 1000) and also for the initial sync of all of them. Then, I discovered that I have each folder twice, one with "nnimap+home.pca.it:" and one without. Even worse, the flags in the "without" IMAP folders are not synchronized *from* IMAP to Gnus, while they are on the other way around. Here how my `*Group*' buffer looks like: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [ Gnus -- 485901+917 ] 419+1: INBOX 9887+0: Junk 351+0: Sent [...] [ mail -- 966+61 ] 109+0: nndraft:drafts 17+0: nnimap+home.pca.it:Drafts 396+22: nnimap+home.pca.it:INBOX 16+0: nnimap+home.pca.it:Junk 138+9: nnimap+home.pca.it:Sent --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- And the `*Server*' buffer: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- {nnfolder:archive} (opened) {nndraft:} (opened) {nndoc:gnus-help} (opened) {nntp:news.gmane.org} (opened) {nnml:} (opened) {nnimap:home.pca.it} (opened) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Obviously, the above is wrong for two reasons: first, I do not want to see each folder twice (so Gnus should automatically "merge" the with "nnimap+home.pca.it:" and without) and, second, I do not want to set *again* each flag for all the emails (as you can read, almost 500k). I do not think I did something wrong, but feel free to point me in the right direction. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of 2012-06-15 on zelenka, modified by Debian (emacs-snapshot package, version 2:20120615-1) Configured using: `configure '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--host' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--without-compress-info' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-imagemagick=yes' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed -znocombreloc' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'' Important settings: value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LC_MONETARY: fr_CH.UTF-8 value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Group Minor modes in effect: gnus-topic-mode: t gpm-mouse-mode: t display-time-mode: t show-paren-mode: t gnus-undo-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-c ESC f g ESC x d DEL e m a TAB b u TAB TAB TAB DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL r e p o r TAB e m TAB b u TAB RET Recent messages: nnimap read 428k from home.pca.it (initial sync of 1 group; please wait) nnimap read 488k from home.pca.it (initial sync of 1 group; please wait) nnimap read 542k from home.pca.it (initial sync of 1 group; please wait) nnimap read 600k from home.pca.it (initial sync of 1 group; please wait) nnimap read 662k from home.pca.it (initial sync of 1 group; please wait) nnimap read 720k from home.pca.it (initial sync of 1 group; please wait) Reading active file via nnml...done Reading active file via nndraft...done Checking new news...done Making completion list... 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