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prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant) wrote:
>>   It seems that nnmaildir is messing article counting in
>>   last week snapshots ; nnmaildir seems to count as unread
>>   some articles that have been read.
>>
>>   Is anyone experiencing such a problem?
>
> Yes.  This is (at least partly) the same old problem of Gnus
> overestimating the number of articles when there are holes in the
> article range.  Such holes are more likely now that nnmaildir stores
> article numbers persistently.  There seems to be more to it, but I'm
> not sure what yet.  AFAICT, nnmaildir is reporting correct data to
> Gnus, but in some cases, Gnus still overestimates even when there are
> no holes.

  What's the cure Doc' ?

  Thanks.

-- 
Jérôme Marant

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