Re: Crazy imap unread counts

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> 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.

It sounds like a bug, but the whole point of the Agent is that it will
override whatever the server says with what it thinks it knows.  So if
it saw an article with number 4343432, and the server later says
"nuh-uh, my highest article is 15 now, so there", the Agent will say
"nyah-nyah, I know about articles up to 4343432".

Which is a feature most of the time.

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