From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37458 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Backend writing Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 13:46:40 +0200 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 1035172870 14006 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:01:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:01:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 17136 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2001 11:47:07 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Aug 2001 11:47:07 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id NAA01432 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 13:46:40 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id NAA25227; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 13:46:40 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id NAA09609; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 13:46:40 +0200 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/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 25 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37458 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37458 Simon Josefsson writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: >=20 >> 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. He, he. > Basicly, nnimap makes sure the old NOV cache isn't used when a > uidvalidity has changed. Nnimap also updates all Gnus marks when > entering a group so they should be OK. The only thing left is the > active range, and that's updated by Gnus when you `g', `M-g' or > somesuch. Possibly a uidvalidity change breaks the cache or the agent > if article numbers are actually re-used. But in several cases IMAP > servers update UIDVALIDITY but still does not re-use article numbers, > so in those cases it's OK to ignore the error. My goodness. I didn't think of the agent and the cache. Hmpf. kai --=20 ~/.signature: No such file or directory