Re: Generating article numbers in new backends

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

pedro.alex.silva@gmail.com writes:

> Is the above harmless and can I just use these SQL IDs for article
> numbers?

It's harmless, but will lead to Gnus overestimating the number of
articles in the group.  You can avoid this by using `unexist' tracking.
See nnimap for how it does this.

> If not, what is the best practice for generating Gnus-specific
> article numbers? I've not been able to find documentation on any helper
> functions for this. I perused nnimap and nnrss's source, but it's been
> of no help.
>
> Must I keep a local mapping of SQL IDs to Gnus article numbers?

If you want consecutive numbers in Gnus, I think you do.

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