From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72804 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Returning to ticks on read-only imap servers Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:32:35 -0400 Message-ID: <87r5g0mkuk.fsf@uwo.ca> References: <87eic45u1n.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <8762xdsn0d.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <87zkuozgr5.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87vd5czggz.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87tykwpjfl.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286573610 12842 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2010 21:33:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 21:33:30 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21176@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 08 23:33:30 2010 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 1P4KZF-0001vc-Bo for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:33:29 +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 1P4KYd-0008J6-BZ; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:32:51 -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 1P4KYb-0008Il-A0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:32:49 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P4KYZ-0004I5-DG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:32:48 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P4KYX-0003DW-00 for ; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:32:45 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P4KYU-0001d6-CI for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:32:42 +0200 Original-Received: from bas3-london14-1096787747.dsl.bell.ca ([65.95.167.35]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:32:42 +0200 Original-Received: from jdc by bas3-london14-1096787747.dsl.bell.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:32:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bas3-london14-1096787747.dsl.bell.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wFcgOIaaNMkcegdQih3HwhVPITQ= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72804 Archived-At: Julien Danjou writes: > My point is that in the *Group* buffer we (mostly) need how many > messages and how many unread message there's in the group, and STATUS > give that for free, with an indicator (UIDVALIDITY) indicating *if* we > need to do a FETCH 1:* on group entering. :-) I'm no expert, but my understanding is that in normal operation, UIDVALIDITY never changes, even when messages arrive, are deleted, or flags change. So it can't help solve the problem at hand. Dan