bug#53352: 29.0.50; IMAP INBOX not refreshing using `gnus-group-get-new-news'

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

I have a gnus installation where the select method is as such:

    ;;; Select Method
    (setq gnus-select-method
          '(nnimap "localimap"
                    (nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
                    (nnimap-address "xxxxxxxx.xxx")))

The IMAP server is Dovecot 2.3.17.1.  There's nothing special in the
group parameters for the INBOX folder, currently this:

    ((modseq . "6496")
     (uidvalidity . "1374073954")
     (active 1 . 2140)
     (permanent-flags %Answered %Flagged %Deleted %Seen %Draft gnus-forward 
gnus-download %*))

The group activation level is 1.

Mail splitting is currently being handled by sieve, not by Gnus.
However, when sieve leaves a message in INBOX rather than sorting it to
another folder, it does not appear in INBOX using `g'
(gnus-group-get-new-news).  Any mail that stays there does show up if I
use `M-g' (gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic) on the group.  This only
happens for the INBOX folder.  I don't believe INBOX should behave
differently from other folders in this regard.

In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 
1.16.0)
 of 2022-01-12 built on miko
Repository revision: f2fcea2716405aac9a3a6013b284b6b7be634725
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12013000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid

Configured using:
 'configure --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-x-toolkit=lucid
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Configured features:
CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON
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Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Load-path shadows:
/home/md5i/.config/emacs/elpa/transient-20211105.100/transient hides 
/usr/local/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/transient

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-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@md5i.com)