Moving/deleting mail with gnus (nnmaildir)

Moving/deleting mail with gnus (nnmaildir)

[Kamil Jońca]

I have maildir folder with a lot of mails (say 10000)
With gnus I select 100 first  mails (i.e. <Space> -100 ), read 2 of them
and  98 move to another folder (another nnmaildir group)
Then I exit (q) from group, and select again 100 articles, but with read
articles (C-u <Space> -100) and gnus select only 2 previously read
articles. Looks like it remember some info about deleted/moved
articles. I expected that gnus show me 2 read, and 98 other
not-yet-deleted articles. Am I missing something?
KJ

Re: Moving/deleting mail with gnus (nnmaildir)

[Frank Schmitt]

kjonca@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) writes:

> I have maildir folder with a lot of mails (say 10000)
> With gnus I select 100 first  mails (i.e. <Space> -100 ), read 2 of them
> and  98 move to another folder (another nnmaildir group)
> Then I exit (q) from group, and select again 100 articles, but with read
> articles (C-u <Space> -100) and gnus select only 2 previously read
> articles. Looks like it remember some info about deleted/moved
> articles. I expected that gnus show me 2 read, and 98 other
> not-yet-deleted articles. Am I missing something?

The issue is that in Summery buffer, Gnus only uses a very coarse
estimation of message count (yes, this sucks badly). What will probably
work is entering the group and only then saying /o 100 to get 100 old messages.

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