Uwe Brauer via "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader (in English)" writes:
>> On Sun, Aug 03 2025, Uwe Brauer via "Announcements and discussions for >> GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader (in English)" >> wrote: > > >> For what purpose did you try to use ‘Gnus Cloud’? > > For trying to recover the dormant mark, since this mark is not really > saved in the .newsrc file. > > I meanwhile found out that the setup is much easier that I thought, and > I manged to use download and upload cloud data, still the dormant marks > are not really saved. (My messages to ding@gnuorg still don't seem to be getting there) To set the record straight: Marks will be uploaded only if you have them in the newsrc in the first place: which is already not true of your nnimap - so you may have to use nnagent (or something else). (AFAIU) Does that make sense? James Thomas writes: > James Thomas writes: > >> James Cloos writes: >> >>>>>>>> "UB" == Uwe Brauer writes: >>> >>> UB> Is there any way to make dormant marks permanent? >>> UB> I add dormant marks to the messages of my imap group >>> >>> Since the commit Lars pushed which ended newsrc.eld storage of marks for >>> imap groups, persistance of any mark, including dormant, is solely >>> dependent on the imap server. >>> >>> when that change happened, i was using an imap server which could only >>> support the fixed set of marks in the imap rfc. >>> >>> so tick -- which uses the standard imap keyword Flagged -- would persist. >>> >>> dormant, however, is a gnus-specific keyword (gnus-dormant). >>> so it would not persist. >>> >>> i now use dovecot, which supports arbitrary keywords. so now dormant >>> persists for me. as it used to back when all of the marks were stored >>> in ~/.newrc.eld. >>> >>> so your only options are an imap server capable of storing arbitrary >>> keywords, hack you current imap server to support the gnus-dormant >>> keyword, or hack gnus to save dormant in .newrc.eld. >> >> Have you tried using (info "(gnus) The Gnus Cloud") instead? > > (Somehow this message seems to not have made it here) > > FWICT, you may use an offline gnus-cloud-method instead of 'I', as well, > to replicate: > >>> newsrc.eld storage of marks > > -- --
