Hi,

Here's a patch I submitted last June which allows the group buffer to show
exact article counts for nnml groups instead of the estimate based on the
difference of the greatest and smallest article numbers.  Kai then helped
me to improve it a bit, and then suggested to wait until the feature freeze
is over.  I guess it is over now, and it would be nice if it could be
integrated into No Gnus.  (I have all the paperwork done.)

It is fairly simple, and perhaps a little bit out of date (after all, the
lisp files I patched were probably modified since then), but since they're
only additions, it shouldn't be too hard to merge them.  Also, if anyone
writes functions to retrieve the list of existing article numbers for any
other backend than nnml, i.e., nnimap, then it should be able to display
exact article counts for those backends, too.

Cheers,

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David Hanak - Research Engineer
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P.S.: I tried to post this message two times before, first to the
newsgroup, second time to the ding@gnus.org list address.  However, my
posting didn't appear on the newsgroup, while other postings kept coming.
Is it because I used a spamified sender address?  I try to post with my
real address this time, hope it works.