Incorrect article count

Incorrect article count

[Peter Lee]

If I hit enter on my nnml:mail.misc folder I get the following:

How many articles from nnml:mail.misc (default 1228): 

The problem is there are only about 100 emails in this folder.  I've
brought this up before and I think it was Kai that suggested marking
all the articles and moving them back into the same folder.  In the
past this has worked... until the next time the number is off.  Also
in this folder, I have 3 articles marked as expired that I can't seem
to delete.  "B ESC ^E" doesn't work.  If I try to view those articles
nothing happens... It's as if the summary is out of sync with what is
actually on disk.

So, my questions are, how does gnus maintain those numbers?  How are
they getting out of sync?  What can I do to prevent this from
happening?  How can I get rid of those expired ghost articles?

Thanks.

Re: Incorrect article count

[David Hanak]

On Mon, 08 Mar 2004, Peter Lee wrote:

> Thanks for the replies.  With the .overview hint, I was able to
> remove the "ghost" articles that appeared in the summary but were not
> on disk.  After I did that marking all messages and moving to the
> same folder fixed the numbering problem as it used to.

When ghost articles appear in the overview, you should be able to fix that
by calling nnml-generate-nov-databases.

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Re: Incorrect article count

[Frank Schmitt]

Linh Dang <linh@linhdang.home> writes:

> How about nnimap? Doest the above recipe work with nnimap backend too?

Yes it does.

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