Re: Multiple IMAP servers and groups with the same name

[Simon Josefsson]

Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> my setup has two IMAP servers ("Local" and "", both are cyrus 2.1.16).
> Both accounts have an INBOX folder and several other folders with the
> same name.  Each time I check for new mail, gnus tells me the folders
> which exists on both servers have changed and then goes on to check
> these folders for what has changed (nothing!).  This slows down
> gnus-group-get-new-news quite a bit; the more folders with same name
> exist, the longer it takes to check for new mail.
>
> E.g. with a few "duplicate" groups I get the following messages
> each time I hit 'g':
>
> ,----
> | Reading active file from Local via nnimap...
> | Opening nnimap server on Local...done
> | nnimap: Checking mailboxes...
> | nnimap: Mailbox Admin/Root modified
> | nnimap: Mailbox Admin/Postmaster modified
> | nnimap: Mailbox Admin/Logcheck modified
> | nnimap: Mailbox INBOX modified
> | nnimap: Checking mailboxes...done
> | Reading active file via nnimap...
> | Opening nnimap server...done
> | nnimap: Checking mailboxes...
> | nnimap: Mailbox Admin/Root modified
> | nnimap: Mailbox Admin/Postmaster modified
> | nnimap: Mailbox Admin/Logcheck modified
> | nnimap: Mailbox INBOX modified
> | nnimap: Checking mailboxes...done
> `----
>
> How do I get gnus to understand that these groups are really different?

What does G E on one of the doubly-checked groups contain before and
after 'g'?

It might be a bug in nnimap-retrieve-groups, if you or someone wants
to edebug it to tell for sure.