Wrong article count

[David Sumbler]

I use nnfolder: for my mail groups.  When entering a group, Gnus asks
me how many articles to fetch if there are more than 200 (the
default).

Lately I seem to be getting some odd behaviour, where Gnus says that
there are far more mails than there really are in a group.  For
instance, at the moment if I enter the group nnfolder:inbox, Gnus says
"How many articles from nnfolder:inbox (default 751):".  When I enter
the group, which has (display . all), I see that there are in fact 66
items, including expirable and read mails.  Looking at ~/mail/inbox
seems to suggest that only these 66 articles exist in the file.

'cat ~/Mail/inbox.nov' gives

((expire 505 730 734 738 743 (750 . 751)) (read (1 . 751)) (reply 661
663 670 682 685 707 712 716 728 733 736 739) (tick 731) (save 505))

and doing "G E" on the group gives

("nnfolder:inbox" 1
 ((1 . 751))
 ((seen
   (192 . 751))
  (cache 505)
  (save 505)
  (expire 505 730 734 738 743
          (750 . 751))
  (reply 661 663 670 682 685 707 712 716 728 733 736 739)
  (tick 731))
 "nnfolder:"
 ((gcc-self . t)
  (display . all)
  (visible . t)))

Why is Gnus asking me about articles that no longer exist, and how do
I prevent this behaviour?

David

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