fetch old mail not working - imap

fetch old mail not working - imap

[Richard Riley]

If I enter my INBOX and read the one unread mail there and then do

C-u 40 /o

The amount I get varies from 3 or 4 to 10 to 20. Seemingly
random. Something to do with article numbers? Can I re-sort them if thats
the case?

Siiliarly if I focus on the group INBOX (which has no unread articles)
in the group buffer and hit enter it prompts me for how many to fetch. If
I put in 1 it jumps to the next group with no unread articles. If I put
in 30 I get about 13 or so. 

Re: fetch old mail not working - imap

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> If I enter my INBOX and read the one unread mail there and then do
>
> C-u 40 /o
>
> The amount I get varies from 3 or 4 to 10 to 20. Seemingly
> random. Something to do with article numbers?

Yes, `C-u 40 RET' selects the 40 highest-numbered articles.  In groups
like INBOX that's usually a lot more than are actually there.

There's no easy way to fix that.

> Can I re-sort them if thats the case?

No.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: fetch old mail not working - imap

[Dan Christensen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> If I enter my INBOX and read the one unread mail there and then do
>>
>> C-u 40 /o
>>
>> The amount I get varies from 3 or 4 to 10 to 20. Seemingly
>> random. Something to do with article numbers?
>
> Yes, `C-u 40 RET' selects the 40 highest-numbered articles.  In groups
> like INBOX that's usually a lot more than are actually there.
>
> There's no easy way to fix that.
>
>> Can I re-sort them if thats the case?
>
> No.

Well, you can move all the articles from that group to itself, which
on most IMAP servers will result in consecutive numbers being given to
those articles.

Dan