From: Denys Duchier <Denys.Duchier@ps.uni-sb.de>
Subject: counting of unread articles in IMAP
Date: 08 Nov 1999 04:01:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iszowpvg8u.fsf@grizzly.ps.uni-sb.de> (raw)
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?).
Cheers,
--
Dr. Denys Duchier Denys.Duchier@ps.uni-sb.de
Forschungsbereich Programmiersysteme (Programming Systems Lab)
Universitaet des Saarlandes, Geb. 45 http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier
Postfach 15 11 50 Phone: +49 681 302 5618
66041 Saarbruecken, Germany Fax: +49 681 302 5615
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1999-11-08 3:01 Denys Duchier [this message]
1999-11-08 9:14 ` Simon Josefsson
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