From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79489 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Crazy imap unread counts Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:02:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310749461 8143 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2011 17:04:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:04:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27785@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 15 19:04:17 2011 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 1QhloE-0007ID-PD for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:04:15 +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 1QhlnC-00046x-UI; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:03:10 -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 1QhlnB-00046h-Ib for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:03:09 -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 1Qhln5-0000Se-RX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:03:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qhln3-0006pL-3r for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:03:01 +0200 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CC6B188B581; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:02:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997DD1C0006B; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:02:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AMQaC89F2Gwe; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:02:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-93-104-144-171.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.144.171]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:02:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id A2387CA293; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:02:58 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Don't hit me!! I'm in the Twilight Zone!!! In-Reply-To: (Dave Abrahams's message of "Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:21:40 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79489 Archived-At: Dave Abrahams writes: > To try to get a handle on the most annoying issue (unread counts in the > two-hundred-thousands), I started looking where article numbers are > persisted: in .newsrc.eld. Below is the part of my gnus-newsrc-alist > that refers to INBOX. As you can see, there's a range of article > numbers > > (35583 . 250593) This is part the range of read articles (there are a lot of holes in that range). > and (gnus-active "INBOX") is > > (32470 . 250593) This is coming from the active entry. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."