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* Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> writes:

> You would have to request all headers from the backend, then sort
> them, then take the last 40 according to the sorting.  Hm.  I think
> there is no built-in functionality in Gnus for doing this.

Ok, I was a bit afraid of it. Another possibility would (may ?) be to
select all the messages, let them be sorted and ask to respool them into
this very same group (ie : not using the sorting rules). Would that
work?

Fabrice