Re: gnus not showing all articles in a group

[Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com>]

* Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com> wrote:
> * Kathryn Huxtable <kathryn@kathrynhuxtable.org> wrote:

>>    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).

> If I do this as you suggest my article sorting in these groups don't
> work anymore. I use `gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number' in my
> gnus_groupparameters.el and afterwards the oldest mails are at the top
> and the newest at the bottom. Obviously the article numbers seem to
> change. So I tried `gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date' (which is said
> to be slower than -number) instead but this has an effect on only one
> certain group somehow whereas other groups don't seem to be affected.

Ups, I forgot to mention that I also played with
gnus-article-sort-functions (changing `gnus-article-sort-by-number' to
`gnus-article-sort-by-date') but the older articles are still at the
top.

Regards,
Marcus
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