Re: p0.84: Incorrect "new" message when getting mail

[Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu>]

>>>>> "KK" == Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

KK> My *Messages* buffer contains many sequences like this:
KK>         nnml: Reading incoming mail from file...
KK>         Wrote /home/karl/Mail/list/ding/24422
KK>         Wrote /home/karl/Mail/personal/jprc/total-recall/738
KK>         nnml: Reading incoming mail (1 new)...done

KK> 1?  Self-evidently, there were 2.

KK> The number of new items in parentheses is always either 0 or 1.

This confused me for a while too.  I haven't delved into the code, but I
believe there are a couple different /count/ variables.  At least in the
gnus-pop implementation.
        * One variable keeps track of how many mail files have been read
        * Another keeps track of how many messages are retrieved from that
          file, so you can have a message like "Retrieving message 1 of 5
          from pop" (or whatever).
That final message indicates that Gnus read incoming mail from One mail
file.  Presumably, if you have 5 mail sources, this would keep track of
that number as well.

Lars, is this true?  Is Lars able to breath?


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