From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15649 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: total count after expiring emails Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:09:52 -0700 Message-ID: <87obn5vxn3.fsf@psinom.home> References: <44a9yptfzs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343153497 11674 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2012 18:11:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:11:37 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 24 20:11:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1StjZh-0001CY-12 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:11:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StjZg-00030M-9e for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:11:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StjZd-0002u7-Ho for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:11:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StjZc-00064Q-6e for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:11:09 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58108) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StjZc-00064K-0C for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1StjZ5-0000K6-88 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:10:35 +0200 Original-Received: from s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net ([70.67.174.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:10:35 +0200 Original-Received: from prad by s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:10:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:x4WK11T1qBUD4Tc6cXfeg1IlZlQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:15649 Archived-At: Lowell Gilbert writes: > prad writes: > >> i have 92000+ emails and i expired more than half. >> then i did B C-M-e to get rid of the expired emails. >> >> i think that maildir folder is a lot smaller so presumably the expired >> emails have been removed. >> >> however, when i C-u RET i still get the 92000+ number i used to. >> >> i've restarted both gnus and dovecot. >> >> how do i get gnus to report on the correct number of emails i have in my >> inbox? > > You're looking for the 'z' group command, I believe > (`gnus-server-compact-server'). See the manual nodes for > "Group Line Specification" and "Server Commands". > that's what i would have thought too, but when i do gnus-server-compact-server i get told that there is no server. i also tried gnus-group-compact-group (G z) and the message says the backend doesn't support this operation. i think it's implemented for nnml and i'm using nnimap. i was of the opinion that dovecot kept track of the count and gnus got its info from there, but i don't know. i'm using maildir, so can i switch from nnimap to nnml? not sure that's possible or even a good idea since i read that nnml isn't compatible with "any other known format. It should be used with some caution." -- in friendship, prad