From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39168 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap and Unread message count Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 12:50:03 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu 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 1035174918 26443 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:35:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:35:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 5176 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2001 16:50:40 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 6 Oct 2001 16:50:40 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15puec-0000M9-00; Sat, 06 Oct 2001 11:50:22 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 06 Oct 2001 11:49:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA12600 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 11:49:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 5157 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2001 16:50:05 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5152 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2001 16:50:05 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (qmail-remote@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 Oct 2001 16:50:05 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 873 invoked by uid 500); 6 Oct 2001 16:50:25 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: Ding Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sat, 06 Oct 2001 10:41:15 +0200") Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39168 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39168 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) 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