Francis Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Francis,
> Today I was suprised by what Gnus proposed to me when I tried to enter > in my mail box. It asked: > > How many articles from nnfolder:mail.inbox (default 686): > > So the default number looks really high and no I can't find so many > emails in this group: after entering I tried to display old, expunge > mail articles but Gnus showed only 64 articles. > > What am I missing again ? ,----[ (info "(gnus)Group Line Specification") ] | `t' | Estimated total number of articles. (This is really MAX-NUMBER | minus MIN-NUMBER plus 1.) | | Gnus uses this estimation because the NNTP protocol provides | efficient access to MAX-NUMBER and MIN-NUMBER but getting the true | unread message count is not possible efficiently. For hysterical | raisins, even the mail back ends, where the true number of unread | messages might be available efficiently, use the same limited | interface. To remove this restriction from Gnus means that the | back end interface has to be changed, which is not an easy job. | | The nnml backend (*note Mail Spool::) has a feature called "group | compaction" which circumvents this deficiency: the idea is to | renumber all articles from 1, removing all gaps between numbers, | hence getting a correct total count. Other backends may support | this in the future. In order to keep your total article count | relatively up to date, you might want to compact your groups (or | even directly your server) from time to time. *Note Misc Group | Stuff::, *Note Server Commands::. `---- Bye, Tassilo -- The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it's twice as big as it needs to be. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
