From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32104 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: want zombie nnimap groups! Date: 12 Aug 2000 20:22:39 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200004281643.SAA05662@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168430 17858 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:47:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E83ED051E for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 14:21:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAC05627; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 13:21:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 12 Aug 2000 13:20:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26897 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 13:20:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [195.204.10.139]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C73CD051E for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 14:20:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA22549 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 20:22:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ti34a03-0214.dialup.online.no Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 966104526 16358 130.67.65.214 (12 Aug 2000 18:22:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Aug 2000 18:22:06 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Nicolette's _Let No-One Live Rent Free In Your Head (cd1)_: "Judgement Day" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.6 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > nnimap can't tell if a group is "new" or not, since IMAP mailboxes > does not have creation dates attached to them, as nntp have. Listing > all mailboxes and comparing with a old list wouldn't work either, > mailbox lists can be infinite in IMAP. > > Mailboxes that are created by Gnus/nnimap itself might be returned, > but that only solve a small part of the problem so I haven't bothered > doing so. > > Non-generic solutions (such as returning all mailboxes available, > which could work for small-size Cyrus IMAPD installations) could > perhaps be added to solve the problem for some people? The other backends (that have the same problem as IMAP) return the same list with nn*-request-newgroups as with nn*-request-list; that is, all the groups, and then Gnus sorts out the newness issue. If the number of groups is (potentially) extremely large, this is probably not a good idea for nnimap, but is it likely that the number of imap mail groups is extremely large? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen