From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82217 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: automatic group compaction? Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:02:53 +0200 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87sjax2xya.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> References: <87r4qidt28.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87wr0am3ap.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87627tod1a.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346805398 2733 80.91.229.3 (5 Sep 2012 00:36:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 00:36:38 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30486@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 05 02:36:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T93bi-0007SH-RR for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:36:39 +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 1T93b3-0005FW-LL; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:35:57 -0500 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 1T93az-0005Ex-IE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:35:53 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1T93au-0004n2-Qc for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:35:52 -0500 Original-Received: from static.7.179.46.78.clients.your-server.de ([78.46.179.7] helo=yun.yagibdah.de) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T93as-0002NP-9w for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:35:46 +0200 Original-Received: from lee by yun.yagibdah.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1T93aq-0006PO-OR for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:35:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87627tod1a.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:31:29 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-fg: none Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82217 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > lee writes: > >> So every time I entered the group, gnus was asking me how many articles >> to fetch with a default of 2000 because it's configured to "(display >> . [not expire])" for this group and some others. > > The plan is to alter nnml to report accurately how many messages > actually are in the group, so that Gnus doesn't give these inflated > numbers. nnimap is currently the only backend that implements this new > feature, though. Ah ok, then autocompacting isn't needed. What happens when the article numbers flow over? I guess we are unlikely to see that happen during our lifetimes, but I'm curious :) -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html