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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: nnimap : numbering of messages
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:10:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vaf8z5se3jp.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nqvg0004i1w.fsf@yamsrv2.ece.gatech.edu>

Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj@ece.gatech.edu> writes:

>   is it that this number is calculated on some article id which may be correct
>   in case of news posts where u do not have a way to delete messages ?? but
>   not so correct in case of mails ??

That's right.  Gnus just does (max - min + 1) and calls that the
number of articles.  Of course, if articles are missing between min
and max, the number used by Gnus will be wrong.

>   thanks in advance for all help and a possible workaround.

Show 20 messages instead of 10 and hope you haven't deleted more than
half of them :-)

kai
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