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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: moving last mail from nnmh to nnml fails
Date: 16 Nov 1999 13:33:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafr9hqy5tr.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Matt Swift's message of "Tue, 16 Nov 1999 06:45:10 GMT"

Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Also, I don't understand its default setting of nil (or, indeed, the
> reason the variable exists).  MH has no trouble dealing with empty
> folders.  

nnmh looks in the directory and uses the next free article number.
And Gnus doesn't like it at all if article numbers are reused.
Consider: you have marked as read all articles from 1 through 1000.
You delete all articles from the group.  You put a new article in the
group.  It gets number 1 (since that's the next free number).  The new
article will be marked as read!

kai
-- 
This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs,
but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context. -- David Moser


  reply	other threads:[~1999-11-16 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-15 20:26 Matt Swift
1999-11-15 20:32 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-11-16  6:45   ` Matt Swift
1999-11-16 12:33     ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
1999-11-17 23:09       ` Matt Swift
1999-11-18  4:07         ` David S. Goldberg
1999-11-19  6:39           ` Matt Swift
1999-11-19 11:49             ` Kai Großjohann
1999-11-20  5:41               ` Matt Swift

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