Re: mh backend

[David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org>]

François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Rajappa Iyer <rsi@lucent.com> writes:
> 
> > 3. When I periodically delete some mail, I can folder -pack to
> >    renumber all the messages.  With Gnus it is a lot more painful.
> 
> What is the purpose of doing such an operation?  I have the impression that
> it is rather unusual that one has to enter the `nnml' hierarchy directly,
> or depends on attributed numbers.  Isn't it?

The reason to do this is that in the list of messages, you otherwise
get an incorrect count. This is especially troublesome if you get lots 
of mails to one group, which usually expire quickly. I only have four
chars "reserved" for that column in the group buffer, so it looks very 
ugly when it goes over 10k. Of course I could change it to five, but
then it looks ugly when I have less...

Anyway, another solution, which might be easier, would be simply to
show the real number of messages instead of last # - first # (like
counting the number of lines in the overview file or simply storing
the numbers somewhere in .newsrc.eld).

I don't care what the numbers are, but I do want a correct display of
the number of messages in a group.

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