From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/596 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: nnimap : numbering of messages Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:10:34 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667542 7571 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:32:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:49 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!eusc.inter.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.90 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3Ohfh/suj2/zlMBTXUFtmC6Y9Fg= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:736 Original-Lines: 18 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 736 Tue Jan 17 17:27:49 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:596 Archived-At: Dheeraj Reddy 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 -- ~/.signature is: umop 3p!sdn (Frank Nobis)