GNU bug report logs - #8164
24.0.50; gnus displays wrong number of messages in group

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com>

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 8164 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 8164 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8164: 24.0.50; gnus displays wrong number of messages in group
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:13:18 -0700

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Gnus only knows the min and max article numbers in each group -- it does
> not know about possibly missing articles in that range.

I see.

> This could, of course, be fixed for the backends that do have that
> information readily available, like nnimap, but that hasn't been
> implemented yet.

OK. Eventually, this would be nice. 

Initially, I never dared to hit Enter on the group, because I didn't want
gnus to download 8162 messages. ;)

Christoph
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