Re: prompting for large no of headers

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu> writes:

> I've used versions 0.90, 0.126, and 0.127.  Starting with 0.126, I've
> noticed that when entering my main inbox, I'm asked how many headers
> to download, with a default of 1509.  
> 
> Since there are only fifty or so messages in my inbox, and since this
> problem never occurred in version 0.90, I'm thinking that this might
> have something to do with the NOV, but I'm not sure.

It's not a NOV issue.

Gnus uses a estimate on the size of the mailbox, namely
highest-article-number - lowest-article-number. This estimate is a bad
one if you have a UID gaps (which is normal). If this estimate turns
out to be bigger than `gnus-large-newsgroup' you'll be asked how many
headers to fetch.

I use

(setq gnus-large-newsgroup 10000)

to "fix" it.