Re: nnimap article fetching

[ecashin@coe.uga.edu (Ed L. Cashin)]

Rajesh Godbole <argv@Sun.COM> writes:

> I like gnus because one can read news and mail in a similar fashion.
> There however seems to be a difference in the way one nnimap and
> nnml groups are handled.
> 
> When fetching a group, one is prompted 
> "How many articles from <group> (default <num>)"
> 
> For an nnimap group, <num> != <total # unread articles>, 
> it appears to be <total # of articles>.  gnus-large-newsgroup
> also isn't effectively looked at as a result.
> 
> Is (should?) <num> be customizable?   Is this a gnus thing or
> nnimap thing?

I think that your "num" is gnus' gnus-large-newsgroup variable, and
that's a gnus thing.  I put this in my .gnus file to avoid being
asked:

(setq gnus-large-newsgroup 1000)

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