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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: nnimap and Unread message count
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 12:50:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vghsd86m.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafadz5kvo4.fsf@INBOX.auto.gnus.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sat, 06 Oct 2001 10:41:15 +0200")

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> Is somebody willing to change the Gnus implementation to display the
> correct unread count if provided by the backend?  I think this just
> means that the %N and %y specs need to be changed to make use of the
> additional data from the backend.  Hm.  But I don't know how this is
> done.  Hm.

Idea: nnchoke-retrieve-groups can choose to report an article count or
just give the high/low numbers.  Gnus could use that count if given,
and use the high-low difference otherwise.  Backends would have to be
checked to make sure they don't report the count if it's not accurate.


paul



      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-06 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-05 22:28 Nevin Kapur
2001-10-06  8:41 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-06 16:13   ` Nevin Kapur
2001-10-06 16:50   ` Paul Jarc [this message]

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