Re: Backend writing

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

On Fri, 03 Aug 2001, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
>>| that number, or Gnus will get mightily confused.@footnote{??? Is
>>| this still true with the nnchoke-request-*-mark* functions?}
>>| Third, article
> 
> It's still true.

But haven't you just changed nnimap to ignore article renumberings?  I
suppose you wouldn't do that unless it's safe?

>>| The previous paragraph already mentions all the `hard'
>>| restrictions that article numbers must fulfill.  But it seems that
>>| it might be useful to assign @emph{consecutive} article numbers,
>>| for Gnus gets quite confused if there are holes in the article
>>| numbering sequence.  However, due to the `no-reuse' restriction,
>>| holes cannot be avoided altogether.
> 
> I would say "is slowed down" instead of "gets quite confused".  I
> don't think there are any problems, other than that the
> `gnus-range-*' functions start to take very long time.  Some IMAP
> servers leave large holes.

I meant that Gnus says `1276423 messages in this group, how many?' or
something like that when the user enters the group.

kai
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