From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69280 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus and imap Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:36:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87638d5jun.fsf@randomsample.de> References: <877iabwtjx.fsf@randomsample.de> <87abf51c4m.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <874p5dm35l.fsf@randomsample.de> <87iqttq7ja.fsf@randomsample.de> <87d4k0t7ga.fsf@randomsample.de> <87myj3wzp7.fsf@randomsample.de> <87y72mn2sy.fsf@randomsample.de> <87r67d3jp9.fsf@randomsample.de> <87ws0yipcv.fsf@uwo.ca> <87my1qiobw.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260563872 17302 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2009 20:37:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:37:52 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17685@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Dec 11 21:37:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NJCFC-0006D4-T3 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:37:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NJCE0-0006lL-RX; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:36:29 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NJCDz-0006l8-2M for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:36:27 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NJCDv-0000Yl-GQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:36:26 -0600 Original-Received: from m61s02.vlinux.de ([83.151.21.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1NJCDt-0001d4-00 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:36:21 +0100 Original-Received: from dslc-082-082-186-254.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.82.186.254] helo=void) by m61s02.vlinux.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NJCDs-0007oW-Kn for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:36:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87my1qiobw.fsf@uwo.ca> (Dan Christensen's message of "Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:08:51 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69280 Archived-At: Dan Christensen writes: > Dan Christensen writes: >> I'm wondering if Vitaly or David have made any progress on the imap >> unread count. No, not me, at least. > The thread I was referring to above discussed code written by Vitaly > Mayatskikh and included comments by a different David, David Engster: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67238 > > Both seem like they were within reach of a solution to this problem that > has plagued Gnus for a long time! Maybe we can reach a consensus about > the best way to proceed, and finally get it done? I think Vitaly was closest since he had actual patches. How close those patches are to an actual solution - I'm not sure. The Gnus back end code is very convoluted, and there are differences in how primary/secondary/foreign groups are handled, which makes all of this stuff rather unpleasant. Regards, David