From: Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: counting of unread articles in IMAP
Date: 08 Nov 1999 10:14:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilug0yh1h2e.fsf@badis.pdc.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Denys Duchier's message of "08 Nov 1999 04:01:21 +0100"
Denys Duchier <Denys.Duchier@ps.uni-sb.de> writes:
> My IMAP folders often indicate an incorrect number of unread articles
> (in the Group buffer), e.g. it will say 8 when there are in fact 5
> unread messages. Simply visiting the corresponding folder seems to
> resynchronize the counter, which suggests that the correct number is
> available. Is there a good reason why I am at first presented with
> guess work rather than fact? I.e. isn't there a way to ask the IMAP
> server for the number of unread messages (I understand the limitations
> of NNTP, but isn't IMAP supposed to be way cooler?).
Yes, but Gnus uses a protocol similar to NNTP to talk to the backends,
so there is no way to tell Gnus about that number (w/o changing the
backend interface in Gnus), it can only report low/high article number
and Gnus make a educated guess about the number of unread articles.
Hopefully this will change once the more important nnimap bugs has
been solved.
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1999-11-08 3:01 Denys Duchier
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