On Oct 20, 2023, Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote: > Dan Christensen <j...@uwo.ca> writes: > >> Here's a followup question: how can I make Gnus update the marks for >> *all* IMAP groups. > > I once asked Lars about this -- since the IMAP server should be the > source of truth for all information about the messages, why does Gnus > store its own marks data for IMAP groups at all? Why not just refresh > from the server at each startup? I think he said that for many large > groups that would end up being prohibitively slow.
I agree that it would be too slow for many people, especially with remote IMAP servers. So I'd like an optional setting. But I don't think it should have anything to do with Gnus shutdown and startup. *Every* time I hit `g', I want the marks to be refreshed from the IMAP server. Presumably this is the same code that runs when Gnus starts up, so it would improve the behaviour at startup as well. Dan
