From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46695 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnmaildir now has persistent article numbers Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:30:47 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <873cs0v7b1.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <871y7jb80d.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032892407 27550 127.0.0.1 (24 Sep 2002 18:33:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17tuUv-0007A7-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:33:25 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17tuSv-0006pe-00; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:31:21 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:32:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA11256 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:31:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 5297 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2002 18:30:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5292 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2002 18:30:56 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 Sep 2002 18:30:56 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24930 invoked by uid 500); 24 Sep 2002 18:31:10 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <871y7jb80d.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> (Josh Huber's message of "Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:41:06 -0400") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46695 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46695 Josh Huber wrote: > I'm noticing something odd -- > > With the current nnmaildir code I'm seeing the following behavior: > > 1. enter group which has unread messages > 2. catchup group (c) > 3. refresh groups (g) in group buffer > 4. group shows same number of unread messages again > 5. hit RET on group, unread message count returns to 0 without > entering the group. > 6. refresh groups (g) again > 7. *now* the article count is correct. > > Is anyone else seeing this? Yes. I assume it's the same problem that other backends have always had - Gnus ignores the backend's article count in favor of the min/max numbers, and so holes in that range will cause overestimates. Holes are more likely now for nnmaildir because article numbers aren't automatically reassigned for each session. paul