From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79490 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Crazy imap unread counts Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:55:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310752583 27573 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2011 17:56:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27786@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 15 19:56:18 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 1Qhmcc-0002it-CW for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:56:18 +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 1QhmcM-0004Lv-2L; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:56:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QhmcK-0004Le-Ni for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:56:00 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QhmcF-0007Fg-JE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:56:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f44.google.com ([209.85.216.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QhmcD-0008Bq-HR for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:55:53 +0200 Original-Received: by qwc23 with SMTP id 23so1134637qwc.17 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:55:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.224.186.146 with SMTP id cs18mr3197667qab.49.1310752546548; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:55:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from pluto.luannocracy.com (207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com [207.172.223.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v4sm1037476qca.40.2011.07.15.10.55.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by pluto.luannocracy.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id A56E47862C0; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:55:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:02:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79490 Archived-At: on Fri Jul 15 2011, Andreas Schwab wrote: > 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). I know that's what it means. But I daresay I've never *actually* had article numbers that high in this mailbox, so it's not clear where it could have come from. >> and (gnus-active "INBOX") is >> >> (32470 . 250593) > > This is coming from the active entry. Yes, I know where it comes from, although in this case I don't know what the active entry means. Eventually, by removing the group, trashing all the agent files, getting gnus to save the .newsrc.eld file, restarting emacs, and re-adding the group, I was able to get everything back in synch again. That said, since *all the information I needed actually lives on the IMAP server*, there oughtta be a way to do this kind of thing from within Gnus. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com