Re: agentised gmail gives wrong count in group buffer

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have recently decided to agentise my gmail group.  I use the gnus
>>>> agent for my work email and it works (generally) fine.  With gmail, I
>>>> find that the group buffer shows my inbox as having 28000+ emails!  This
>>>> could actually be the number of emails in my gmail/All Mail folder but
>>>> definitely not in my inbox folder.  
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Hopefully linked with the issue I have mentioned numerous times about
>>> multiple agentised gmail accounts  - they all show the same (wrong)
>>> count.
>>
>> One more data point: from my home system, I get gnus now telling me that
>> I have 101 unread/new emails in my gmail folder, not 28000+!  This
>> number is closer to the actual number of emails, both old and new, in
>> that folder which is an improvement of sorts...  
>
> I'm not sure and cant test now but I'm pretty sure 101 is the number I
> kept getting too. I posted it numerous times I think so wont clutter
> here with it again.
>
>

Yes, it does seem to be a generic value...

In any case, I have had to un-agentise my gmail server as it wasn't
picking up any new emails that google was automatically tagging with
other labels.  So emails that, from google's point of view, would appear
in INBOX as well as another "folder" simultaneously were being ignored
by gnus.  Not sure why.  Very strange.  Then again, google does do some
rather non-standard things from what I can tell.  It's imap but not as
we know it... ;-)

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.18