Re: Updated IMAP unread count correction

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> It won't do any good at all to run that code unless I can get it to
> report the right number, so that I'll notice when it reports the wrong
> one.  If you can tell me how to get things back in sync, I can try
> running the normal code again.  

(gnus-clean-old-newsrc t) and then `g'.

> [Incidentally, one thing I dearly wish for in Gnus is the ability to say
> "throw out all the information you have that can be derived from the
> server (and re-derive it on demand)."

`M-g' on each group will do that.

> I don't know if it helps, but I am using a local dovecot with
> offlineimap and recently had to rebuild the local mailstore.  Thus the
> UIDs of messages on the server could easily have been changed.

Gnus should detect that and do a full rescan.  Unless the IMAP server
doesn't change its UIDVALIDITY...

>> `G E' on a group will show you what messages Gnus thinks don't exist on
>> the server.  (In the `unexist' list.)  If that gets out of sync,
>> something wrong happened.
>
> `G E' on my INBOX currently shows more than 800 "seen" entries and about
> 3 in the unexist list.  There are only 3 messages actually existing in
> that mailbox.  Not sure what that tells you, though.

It tells me that your .newsrc.eld data is messed up.  :-) But not much
more.

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