On Monday,  4 Jun 2018 at 23:56, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sometimes when I'm using the nnimap backend with Gmail, if I run
> gnus-summary-insert-old-articles and request, say, 10 articles, no
> additional articles appear in the summary buffer.  If I try again but
> ask for, say, 10000 instead of 10, then some additional articles do
> appear.

Just to say that this happens to me very frequently.  And, in fact, the
number of old articles inserted is always (anecdotally) less than the
number requested.

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