From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37437 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Backend writing Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 19:46:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172853 13867 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:00:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:00:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 29949 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2001 23:46:38 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Aug 2001 23:46:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19652 invoked by uid 500); 3 Aug 2001 23:47:00 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 04 Aug 2001 01:35:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37437 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37437 Simon Josefsson writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: >> But haven't you just changed nnimap to ignore article renumberings? I >> suppose you wouldn't do that unless it's safe? >=20 > I don't know if it's safe, that's what Oort is for. FWIW, nnmaildir has been renumbering articles each time you open the server since 2001-04-11. No problems yet. But you seem to be dealing with something that changes more frequently than that, right? > Basicly, nnimap makes sure the old NOV cache isn't used when a > uidvalidity has changed. [...] It gets sort of ugly if a backend > has to update internal things of Gnus's cache and agent. Does this mean nnimap is stepping outside the backend interface? >>>>| for Gnus gets quite confused if there are holes in the article >>>>| numbering sequence. >>>=20 >>> I would say "is slowed down" instead of "gets quite confused". >>=20 >> I meant that Gnus says `1276423 messages in this group, how many?' or >> something like that when the user enters the group. So maybe "the user gets quite confused"? :) paul