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From: Rud1ger Sch1erz <nospam_tigre@yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: wrong count article.
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:12:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzmau3qbt.fsf@1a-software.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ac34yi0i.fsf@is003308.saclay.cea.fr>

firstname.name@gmail.com (François Lagarde) writes:

> I use nnmail for all my mails. I get a bad count articles. 

This is in the FAQ:

,----[ Question 4.12: ]
| 
| The number of total messages in a group which Gnus  displays in group
| buffer is by far to high, especially in  mail groups. Is this a bug?
| 
|    Answer:
| 
|    No, that's a matter of design of Gnus, fixing this would  mean
| reimplementation of major parts of Gnus'  back ends. Gnus thinks
| "highest-article-number -  lowest-article-number =
| total-number-of-articles". This  works OK for Usenet groups, but if you
| delete and move  many messages in mail groups, this fails. To cure the
| symptom, enter the group via `C-u RET'  (this makes Gnus get all
| messages), then  hit `M P b' to mark all messages and  then say `B m
| name.of.group' to move  all messages to the group they have been in
| before, they  get new message numbers in this process and the count is
| right again (until you delete and move your mail to other  groups
| again).
`----

Alternatively you can run:

`M-x nnml-generate-nov-databases RET':

,----[ (info "(gnus)Mail Spool") ]
|    If your `nnml' groups and NOV files get totally out of whack, you
| can do a complete update by typing `M-x nnml-generate-nov-databases'.
| This command will trawl through the entire `nnml' hierarchy, looking at
| each and every article, so it might take a while to complete.  A better
| interface to this functionality can be found in the server buffer
| (*note Server Commands::).
`----

HTH,
Rudiger

-- 
Achtung, dieses Posting ist mit sublimalen Werbeeinblendungen hinterlegt.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-14 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-06 10:41 François Lagarde
2006-11-06 20:08 ` Reiner Steib
2006-11-07  8:32   ` François Lagarde
2006-11-14 17:12 ` Rud1ger Sch1erz [this message]
2006-11-20 10:33   ` François Lagarde

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