[VM] gmail starred and vm flagged not synchronizing well?

[et]

Dear all,

I've been using vm together with gmail and with the apple Mail.app for a
while, flagging messages in one of the three and unflagging in another,
and things seemed to work very well. recently I noticed that when I
un-star a mail in gmail, it is not un-flagged in vm, while it is
un-flagged in Mail.app. This used to work in the past. I wonder if
this has somehow to do with the fact that I now read my mail in vm on
both my laptop and desktop...

thanks for any hints, E

[Uday Reddy]

Concurrent access is always a tricky business. Please be sure to read
very carefully the section "IMAP Synchronization" in the VM manual:

Top > Starting Up > POP and IMAP Folders > IMAP Folders

Here are some reasons I can think of, for getting misbehaviour.

1. VM uses manual save. Most other mail clients use automatic save. So, VM
doesn't work the same way as the others. If you are opening two VM sessions
on the same IMAP folder, you need to keep this in mind.

2. Many IMAP servers are buggy. My own departmental IMAP server often
doesn't do the changes VM asks it to do. VM has to ask it twice. (I have
built this into VM because I thought maybe other IMAP servers have
this problem too.) Sometimes I have to force VM to log out of the IMAP
server for changes to take effect!

You can look at the trace of the IMAP session (with a buffer name like
"trace of IMAP session to...") to see if you can detect any misbehaviour.

Cheers,
Uday

Post by et
Dear all,
I've been using vm together with gmail and with the apple Mail.app for a
while, flagging messages in one of the three and unflagging in another,
and things seemed to work very well. recently I noticed that when I
un-star a mail in gmail, it is not un-flagged in vm, while it is
un-flagged in Mail.app. This used to work in the past. I wonder if
this has somehow to do with the fact that I now read my mail in vm on
both my laptop and desktop...
thanks for any hints, E

[et]

Post by Uday Reddy
Concurrent access is always a tricky business. Please be sure to read
Top > Starting Up > POP and IMAP Folders > IMAP Folders
Here are some reasons I can think of, for getting misbehaviour.
1. VM uses manual save. Most other mail clients use automatic save. So, VM
doesn't work the same way as the others. If you are opening two VM sessions
on the same IMAP folder, you need to keep this in mind.
2. Many IMAP servers are buggy. My own departmental IMAP server often
doesn't do the changes VM asks it to do. VM has to ask it twice. (I have
built this into VM because I thought maybe other IMAP servers have
this problem too.) Sometimes I have to force VM to log out of the IMAP
server for changes to take effect!
You can look at the trace of the IMAP session (with a buffer name like
"trace of IMAP session to...") to see if you can detect any misbehaviour.
Cheers,
Uday

Post by et
Dear all,
I've been using vm together with gmail and with the apple Mail.app for a
while, flagging messages in one of the three and unflagging in another,
and things seemed to work very well. recently I noticed that when I
un-star a mail in gmail, it is not un-flagged in vm, while it is
un-flagged in Mail.app. This used to work in the past. I wonder if
this has somehow to do with the fact that I now read my mail in vm on
both my laptop and desktop...
thanks for any hints, E

Thanks Uday, I tried the vm-imap-synchronize mentioned in
the manual in my inbox, and when it was done the flags are
not synchronized. vm-imap-sync-on-get is t for me.

when I look at the trace buffer, I see that the flags are
obtained from gmail correctly: I count the occurrences of
lines like this:

* 19997 FETCH (UID 37645 RFC822.SIZE 5252 FLAGS (\Flagged
\Seen))

and find that the number corresponds to 17, the right
number of gmail, while vm shows 38 flagged messages.

cheers, E