Oleksandr Gavenko <[email protected]> writes: > On 2013-04-15, Rainer M. Krug wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I changed my group buffer format and added %t whic, according to the >> manual is >> >> ,---- >> | `t' >> | Total number of articles. >> `---- >> >> but it gives me very strange numbers, e.g. in the Inbox of my gmail >> account (synced via offlineimap) I get nearly 10 times the number of >> actual messages. It is an local imap account. I checked the number of >> files in the Inbox folder of gmail, and it is also only about 10% of >> number shown for %t. >> >> I also read in the info manual that it is only an estimate and the >> liitations for nntp, but my backend is nnimap and I can therefore not >> compact. >> >> So my queestion is: is there a way of getting the number of mails from >> the nnimap backend in the group buffer? >> > > (info "(gnus)FAQ 4-12") > > 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). <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> Thanks for showing me the FAQ - makes sense.
I will think about it and see if I can work around that.\ Cheers, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: [email protected] Skype: RMkrug _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
