Hi I changed my group buffer format and added %t whic, according to the manual is ,---- | `t' | Total number of articles. `---- but it gives me very strange numbers, e.g. in the Inbox of my gmail account (synced via offlineimap) I get nearly 10 times the number of actual messages. It is an local imap account. I checked the number of files in the Inbox folder of gmail, and it is also only about 10% of number shown for %t. I also read in the info manual that it is only an estimate and the liitations for nntp, but my backend is nnimap and I can therefore not compact. So my queestion is: is there a way of getting the number of mails from the nnimap backend in the group buffer? Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: Rainer@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug