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Mail not displayed, but found by search

[Loris Bennett]

Hi,

A webmail client shows me 78 read messages in my inbox.  However, when I use
Gnus to look at the same inbox, I only see I see 14, even when I use
'/o' to display more old messages.  If I use 'G G' on the inbox, I can
find message which my webmail shows me but which Gnus does not.

The messages shown are the more recent ones and new mail is displayed fine.

This behaviour started after updating to Gnus 5.13.

Any ideas about what could be going on?

Loris
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Re: Mail not displayed, but found by search

[Loris Bennett]

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> A webmail client shows me 78 read messages in my inbox.  However, when I use
> Gnus to look at the same inbox, I only see I see 14, even when I use
> '/o' to display more old messages.  If I use 'G G' on the inbox, I can
> find message which my webmail shows me but which Gnus does not.
>
> The messages shown are the more recent ones and new mail is displayed fine.
>
> This behaviour started after updating to Gnus 5.13.
>
> Any ideas about what could be going on?

OK, I solved this myself.  The default for the number of old messages to
be displayed was set to 1000, which I thought should be enough, seeing
as there are only 78 messages in the inbox.  However, when I asked for
all the messages Gnus thinks are in the inbox, namely over 6000, all the
78 messages were displayed.

Which begs the question:

When Gnus thinks it is displaying 1000 messages, but I only see 14,
where are the other messages?  Are they actually in other folders? (I
should have said that I'm using IMAP).

If the messages are in other folders, how can I get Gnus to count the
messages in a more transparent manner?

Loris

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Re: Mail not displayed, but found by search

[Gijs Hillenius]

On 19 Sep 2012, Loris Bennett wrote:


[...]


> If the messages are in other folders, how can I get Gnus to count the
> messages in a more transparent manner?

Get gnus to refresh what it knows about the number of messages in the
folder.

Either select all messages in the mail folder (M P a) and move them to the same
mail folder (B M) or in the Group buffer do a C-g. The first works
better, here. But what do I know.