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

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

[Karl Kleinpaste]

My *Messages* buffer contains many sequences like this:

        nnml: Reading incoming mail from file...
        Wrote /home/karl/Mail/list/ding/24422
        Wrote /home/karl/Mail/personal/jprc/total-recall/738
        nnml: Reading incoming mail (1 new)...done

1?  Self-evidently, there were 2.

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

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

[Jack Vinson]

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

[Stainless Steel Rat]

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* Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu>  on Tue, 04 May 1999
|         * 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).

There are actually no global variables in this part of pop3.el.  The
'retrieving' messages use variables enclosed within a let in pop3-movemail:
`message-count' is let-bound to the result of pop3-stat, and `n' is a
similarly bound counter inside a while loop.  Once pop3-movemail finishes,
those variables are unbound.
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Re: p0.84: Incorrect "new" message when getting mail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

>         nnml: Reading incoming mail from file...
>         Wrote /home/karl/Mail/list/ding/24422
>         Wrote /home/karl/Mail/personal/jprc/total-recall/738
>         nnml: Reading incoming mail (1 new)...done
> 
> 1?  Self-evidently, there were 2.

Yup.  Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.86.

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