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

[Björn Bidar]

Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 12:14 PM Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:
>>
>> >> I noticed that when I read a mail on my phone the read statusis
>> >> still unread when I fetch my mails from my imap server is still
>> >> unread in
>> >> Gnus.
>> >> How can I make Gnus to fetch the read status from Imap?
>> >
>> > This could depend on your email client on your phone.  At what
>> > point does it sync back to the IMAP server to say that you've
>> > read the mail?  When the client closes?  At certain intervals?
>> > You might try closing the client and see if that helps.
>>
>> The mails that were marked as new in Gnus were in the cur folder of
>> the
>> imap folder there were from so yes my email client marked them as
>> read.
>>
>
> The thing is, your /client/ may show them as read but may or may not
> have
> uploaded that "being read" information to the IMAP server.  Do try
> deliberately closing the client on your phone and see if it helps.
> You
> have to be sure (at least on Android) to actually exit the client and
> not
> just switch to another app.
>
> I closed the client in between I think. I will look how Gnus marks
> them

I have access to the imap server. If the mail in the maildir is no longer in 
the new
directory but in the cur directory then the client has send the read
status to the server.

In my case (Sailfish OS mail) updates the read status after the mail has
been read.

>> as read on my imap server.
>>