From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38393 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: N versus . for unseen messages Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:20:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87wv3o9703.fsf@smarttrust.com> 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 1035174264 22178 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:24:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 8145 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2001 08:21:32 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 28 Aug 2001 08:21:32 -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 KAA24070; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:20:53 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id KAA26208; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:20:52 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id E035E206B; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:20:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Nuutti Kotivuori In-Reply-To: <87wv3o9703.fsf@smarttrust.com> (Nuutti Kotivuori's message of "Tue, 28 Aug 2001 06:51:40 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 17 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38393 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38393 Nuutti Kotivuori writes: > Kai Gro=DFjohann wrote: > > Some of my unseen messages are marked `N', some are marked `.'. >> It's clear to me that `N' is used only in nnimap groups, but then >> why do I sometimes see `.' in nnimap groups? > > 'N' comes from the IMAP server's recent status, '.' comes from Gnus's > idea of what's new and what's not. Apparently these two are running at > the same time - and accesses outside Gnus atleast do change the state > of both. I never access my mail from outside Gnus. At least, not knowingly. kai --=20 Symbol's function definition is void: signature