Re: nnml article number gaps

[Reiner Steib]

On Sun, Dec 02 2007, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:

> nobrowser <nobrowser@gmail.com> writes:
>> Is there any non-manual way of squeezing the gaps in article numbers
>> after mass deletion?
>
> Move all the articles to the same group, thereby causing deletion and
> re-insertion within the group.

In the development version there is...

,----[ (info "(gnus)Misc Group Stuff") ]
| `G z'
|      Compact the group under point (`gnus-group-compact-group').
|      Currently implemented only in nnml (*note Mail Spool::).  This
|      removes gaps between article numbers, hence getting a correct
|      total article count.
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Bye, Reiner.
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