From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79818 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Julien Cubizolles Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Wrong message count on IMAP servers Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:18:11 +0200 Message-ID: <877h5qerks.fsf@free.fr> References: <243707459.6230241311629626614.JavaMail.root@zimbra3-e1.priv.proxad.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314987594 4167 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2011 18:19:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 18:19:54 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28112@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Sep 02 20:19:50 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QzYLE-0007SD-Qj for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:19:49 +0200 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 1QzYK5-0006sR-8F; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:18:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QzYK4-0006sG-1L for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:18:36 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QzYJy-0004Df-1t for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QzYJv-0001hr-53 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:18:27 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QzYJu-0006tt-KG for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:18:26 +0200 Original-Received: from rke75-3-82-229-182-158.fbx.proxad.net ([82.229.182.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:18:26 +0200 Original-Received: from j.cubizolles by rke75-3-82-229-182-158.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:18:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rke75-3-82-229-182-158.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6wLWUhoS7Gn8i58hHGcMgfX6i+o= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79818 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > j.cubizolles@free.fr writes: > >> I've set up gnus to read mail from two IMAP servers, but the read message >> counts are awfully wrong : >> >> * at free.fr (french provider) gnus announces 301740 unread emails >> instead of the 1732 from the webmail > > If the message numbers are sparse (i. e., there are many missing > messages in between other messages), nnimap groups, like all other > groups, will report a theoretical maximum instead of the actual > number. Fixing this is not in the cards before the release of Emacs > 24. Ok, it's not that important anyway. Julien.