Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine Subject: Re: NNTP: marking all posts as read does not stick Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:01:12 +0100 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <86bm8mxbdb.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <3ef6af02-de44-9c62-ea82-3ebb85e5ecc9@maillard.im> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net rTpZov82iiamv/OBujFsdgdHbMRmRhr4K9MLs6BGEjCOuZhlOs X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:5E4mRnXZeCArlacyLsbyqdRjXt4= sha256:eP7QGEMhf0TCIG8ygLmAf/JChkGgeZUSrVKT1pB5uJk= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <3ef6af02-de44-9c62-ea82-3ebb85e5ecc9@maillard.im> X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.mail.pine:3196 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🇪🇺;