From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14109 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brett Viren Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: gnus-group-read-group wants to retrieve ancient articles Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:15:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290644415 12861 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2010 00:20:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:20:15 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 25 01:20:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PLPZL-0003SE-7q for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:20:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PLPZK-0007kx-Js for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:20:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53628 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PLPZI-0007k3-3h for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PLPZG-0005TM-UX for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:20:08 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:45593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PLPZG-0005T2-PS for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PLPZD-0003Pe-R0 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from tsa3-wan.fnal.gov ([131.225.103.36]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:20:03 +0100 Original-Received: from brett.viren by tsa3-wan.fnal.gov with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:20:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 131.225.103.36 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14109 Archived-At: I'm using GNUS 5.13 with GNU emacs23. I recently switched from using the pipeline: procmail->maildir->dovecot->nnimap to one like: procmail->maildir->dovecot->offlineimap->dovecot->nnimap. For offlineimap I use the mapping scheme to carry over Gnus marks. But, I may have done several syncs before I clued in to this issue. Two problems have developed: Now, when I hit ENTER on a group (gnus-group-read-group) I'm asked for: How many articles from nnimap+localhost:topic (default 20810) The "topic" group may contain only a small handful of new articles and ~20k of ancient (marked "O") ones. Before the change, only the new articles (and any articles marked "!") would be retrieved. I can type in the number of articles I want and sometimes this is okay, if a bit tedious. But if the new mail is a reply to an early thread it is not obvious how many articles must be retrieved to pick up the new one. The other problem, maybe related, is sometimes I will enter a group with, say, one new article by doing ENTER 1 ENTER, read that article, exit the group and now the group will have many "new" articles. Reentering the group I find the articles that were previously ancient are no lacking any marks. I've searched around this list and elsewhere and find others that seem to have the same sort of issues but no solutions. There is some hints that offlineimap may be reordering articles somehow but nothing conclusive. I hope someone has some suggestion. Thanks, -Brett.