Re: performance respooling articles in nnmbox or nnbabyl

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

gsstark@mit.edu (Greg Stark) writes:

> Commonly i add a new split-method when i realize that the traffic from some
> list or whatever is getting high.  Then i want to move all the messages from
> my misc group into the new group.  If I simply respool my entire misc
> directory, all my ticks and marks are lost, all the articles show up as
> unread, and a lot of extra work is done.

Well, that's a bug.  Fix in 0.55.

> What i really want to happen is for the split-method functions to be
> reapplied, and if the result doesn't match the existing Xref header,
> only then should the article be moved.

Hm.  It seems perfectly valid to me to respool articles to the same
group, really.  This is handy if one wants to "clean up" the article
numbers, for instance.

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