Renumbering aricles in mail folders?

[Christoph Seibert <seibert@cs.uni-bonn.de>]

Hi!

I'm using Gnus 5.4.52 and the nnml backend for my mail. Is there a way
to get nnml to renumber the articles in a folder? For example, the
highest article number in my mail.other folder is 507, but there
aren't that many messages in the folder because I deleted several
mails. Now every time I enter the folder, Gnus asks me how many
messages it should display, because it assumes there are 507 messages
in there. I could of course turn off that request, but is there a
better way?

Is this related to the fact that I delete mails using B DEL? Should I
use the expiry mechanism to get rid of unwanted mail? Would that be
the "proper" way, or is there no such thing?

Bye,
Christoph

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