Re: gnus and imap

[Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net>]

Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi there!
>
> As you all may know, Gnus counts articles in newsgroup within one single
> sequence (min . max). This prevents imap backend to display correct
> numbers of read/unread articles and cause many other weird and ugly
> things, because imap stores uids of articles in sequence set. What do
> you think of extending active info in Gnus from sequence to the
> sequence set? I did it experimentally with adding "unread" list to the
> group info and changing all work with gnus-active to manipulations
> with gnus-info-read and gnus-info-unread, and nnimap works just fine for
> me now. However, all other backends are broken at the moment, but if you
> think it is a good intention (to extend active info to sequence set), it
> will be no problems to add this feature for all backends.

I think this is a very good proposal. The problem which decays my Gnus
IMAP experience most is, that the unread count is often wrong after you
accessed your IMAP folder with an other instance of Gnus or an other
client. Does your change fix this?

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