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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: bug in gnus-fixup-nnimap-unread-after-getting-new-news?
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 07:04:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34r3k7gi7.fsf@heechee.beld.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluptm84odw.fsf@latte-wlan.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 24 May 2003 12:42:19 +0200")

On Sat, 24 May 2003, jas@extundo.com wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
>> When the function gnus-fixup-nnimap-unread-after-getting-new-news
>> gets run by the gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook, the unread counts
>> are wrong for me.  For instance, "spam" (nnml backend) will get the
>> same amount of unread messages as "nnimap+mail.lifelogs.com:mail"
>> (nnimap backend).  Looking at the
>> gnus-fixup-nnimap-unread-after-getting-new-news function, it
>> appears to me that it uses the mailbox name as known to nnimap
>> internally, which would only be correct if the nnimap server was
>> the primary server.
>>
>> Furthermore, the function seems to use nnimap-mailbox-info, which
>> is applicable only to the current IMAP server, so probably there
>> will be issues with multiple IMAP servers as well.  Please let me
>> know if I'm mistaken about this, so I can look elsewhere.
> 
> I think you are right.  Maybe it is time to implement Kai's
> suggestion of a new backend API to support this function properly?

I'll help if I can, I don't know the backend APIs that well though.

In the meanwhile, should we disable
gnus-fixup-nnimap-unread-after-getting-new-news?  I'm currently
defaliasing it to 'ignore, but others may be seeing the same bug.  I
have not seen any bad effects from disabling it in my setup.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-24 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-23 17:56 Ted Zlatanov
2003-05-24 10:42 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-24 11:04   ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2003-05-24 14:13     ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-25 10:56       ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-05-27 17:24         ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-05-27 22:05           ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-29 14:54             ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-05-29 16:27               ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-30 22:15                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-05-31  3:54                   ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-31 11:37                     ` Ted Zlatanov

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