From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38370 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "Updating marks" spam -- how do I kill it? Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:43:14 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Message-ID: References: <861ylxxqt6.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> <86wv3pw88m.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174244 22028 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:24:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:24:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 13984 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2001 20:43:16 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Aug 2001 20:43:16 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1088 invoked by uid 500); 27 Aug 2001 20:43:36 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <86wv3pw88m.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> (Jack Twilley's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:36:25 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38370 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38370 Jack Twilley wrote: >>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson writes: >Simon> The updating of marks isn't in the Gnus -> nnml direction, but >Simon> rather the other way around. So all groups that are checked >Simon> for new mail have their marks updated (if necessary) as well. > > There has *got* to be a better way. When nnmaildir looks at the stored marks, it also grabs the modtime and keeps that in memory. Next time around, if the modtime hasn't changed, the marks are assumed to be unchanged. paul