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Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick

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On 2026-03-16 20:31, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> can someone explain to me why, while reading a NNTP newsgroup, does not 
> persist the marks ?
> 
> For example, I marked all the posts here as read. I left the group, got 
> back and all articles are marked as New.
> 
> What's the correct way to persist marks ? I may have done something 
> wrong at some point.

You can not. Alpine does not cache messages, nor maintain a permanent 
index. It works with email because the mail server, not Alpine, keeps 
the info. When the folder is local, it writes the info into that folder.

You can delete messages, that holds.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Xavier Maillard <x@maillard.im> - 2026-03-16 20:31 +0100
  Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-03-16 23:01 +0100
    Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-03-16 23:18 +0000
  Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-03-16 23:23 +0000
    Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Xavier Maillard <x@maillard.im> - 2026-03-17 03:14 +0100
      Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-03-17 03:13 +0000
        Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Xavier Maillard <x@maillard.im> - 2026-03-17 05:06 +0100
          Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-03-17 07:28 +0000
            Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Xavier Maillard <x@maillard.im> - 2026-03-17 19:26 +0100
              Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-03-17 18:31 +0000
  Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> - 2026-03-17 22:15 -0600
    Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Xavier Maillard <x@maillard.im> - 2026-03-18 07:29 +0100
      Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> - 2026-03-18 00:47 -0600
        Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Xavier Maillard <x@maillard.im> - 2026-03-18 17:48 +0100
          Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-03-18 18:30 +0000
            Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Xavier Maillard <x@maillard.im> - 2026-03-18 23:06 +0100
              Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> - 2026-03-18 21:27 -0600
              Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-03-19 03:28 +0000
                Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Xavier Maillard <x@maillard.im> - 2026-03-19 06:17 +0100
    Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick LC's No-Spam Newsreading account <nospam@home.invalid> - 2026-03-20 20:17 +0100
      Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Xavier Maillard <x@maillard.im> - 2026-03-21 04:47 +0100

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