Re: Does Gnus read and sync the read with IMAP?

[James Thomas]

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> AFAIU Gnus stores such stuff in a file named ".newsrc.eld" (AFAIR
> ".newsrc.el" in older Emacs versions).  And indeed, among other things
> there seems to be information about "seen" status of messages in that
> file, as well as saved status, ticked and dormant status, all of that
> Gnus specific stuff, but nothing related to the "read" (or "old")
> status.  So I guess the "read" status is fetched every time when you
> open the group, along with the rest (list of existing messages etc).

Just FYI: For those who use the agent, (info "(gnus) Agent and flags")
is also relevant in this regard.

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