From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59475 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wes Hardaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: dummy line marked E breaks imap Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:03:29 -0800 Organization: Sparta Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1103778900 19055 80.91.229.6 (23 Dec 2004 05:15:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8015@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Dec 23 06:14:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ChLJO-000266-00 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:14:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1ChL8k-0002c2-00; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:03:55 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1ChL8c-0002bu-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:03:46 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1ChL8X-0005HM-9f for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:03:41 -0600 Original-Received: from dcn236-43.dcn.davis.ca.us ([168.150.236.43] helo=wes.hardakers.net) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ChL8R-0005dS-00 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:03:36 +0100 Original-Received: by wes.hardakers.net (Postfix, from userid 274) id BBF8311D905; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:03:29 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Simon Josefsson Face: 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 oiVhxAjSHxQwhiYJEdCR6tMN1/uckirDRNbsgAAAAASUVORK5CYII= In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:11:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59475 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59475 >>>>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:11:50 +0100, Simon Josefsson said: Simon> The problem is the negative UID, I think dummy lines are Simon> assigned negative article numbers. However, are backends Simon> really expected to handle negative article numbers? It appears Simon> as if there is a bug in Gnus in that it doesn't remove the Simon> negative article number before invoking the backend. If not, Simon> nnimap should probably just discard negative article numbers. I agree... I doubt gnus should be handing them down. It certainly doesn't seem like adding the complexity to all the backends is worth the one time you'd have to watch for it above. -- "In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find." -- Terry Pratchett