Hermann <[email protected]> writes: Hi Herrmann,
> I switched the mail backend to nnimap, and since yesterday I observe > the following phenomenon, that wasn't there before: When new mails > arrive, Gnus shows wrong numbers. When one mail arrives, I see between > 10 and 20 new messages. When more new mails are in my inbox, it > happens that I get several thousands announced. In fact there are 3 or > 4. I also use the same Imap account with my notebook with Windows XP > and Thunderbird. (It doesn't happen there) What may cause this? It's > no show stopper, but annoying. The problem is that Gnus was designed for nntp where no articles get deleted and each new article gets a number which always increases. So for Gnus the unread count is numer_of_newest - number_of_previous. Suppose you have the read articles 1, 2, 3 and get the new articles 4 and 5, Gnus will tell you that 5-3=2 new articles are there. In that case, it's correct. But when you delete article 2 and 3 before the new messages arrive, it'll say your unread count is 5-1=4, which is wrong. So this is a problem which is caused by Gnus' backend design, and it's not easily fixable. You can move all mails to a temporary group and move em back, so that gap will be filled up, but the next time you delete/move mails away, it'll be the same again... Well, a bit annoying, but not a showstopper, just as you said... Bye, Tassilo -- A morning without coffee is like something without something else. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
