bug#8164: 24.0.50; gnus displays wrong number of messages in group

[Christoph Scholtes]

Emacs 24.0.50 r103501

I am using gnus to read mail from Google Mail via imap.

When I pull up my INBOX folder with C-u Return gnus asks me how many
articles to download. The default value according to gnus is 8823. When
I press Return, it downloads 42 articles, as many as are actually in the
INBOX folder. Shouldn't it display the actual number of messages in the folder?

Other folders have the same problem and also display an incorrect
default number of messages.


In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600)
 of 2011-03-03 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --cflags 
-IC:/Progra~2/GnuWin32/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libXpm-3.5.8/include 
-ID:/devel/emacs/libXpm-3.5.8/src'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  desktop-save-mode: t
  autopair-mode: t
  autopair-global-mode: t
  ido-everywhere: t
  yas/global-mode: t
  yas/minor-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  size-indication-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-p C-p C-p SPC q 
SPC <help-echo> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n SPC C-n C-n 
SPC C-n SPC <up> SPC S W C-SPC C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-x C-k <down> <down> <down> <down> <return> 
I SPC q w i l <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
w i l l SPC g i v e t <backspace> SPC t h a t SPC a 
SPC t r y . C-x k <return> y e s <return> <down> SPC 
S W C-SPC C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-x C-k <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <return> C-x k <return> y e s <return> 
C-c c A n s r <backspace> w e r C-c C-c < M C y q SPC 
C-n C-n C-n SPC SPC SPC SPC C-n C-n SPC C-n C-n C-n 
C-n SPC C-u C-f U N q q y <help-echo> M-x g n u s <return> 
C-p C-p C-p C-u <C-return> C-u <return> C-n C-n C-u 
<return> <return> B m T r a s j <tab> <backspace> h 
<tab> <return> q q y C-x RET r e p o r t <tab> <re
turn>

Recent messages:
Fetching headers for INBOX...done
Generating summary...done
No more unseen articles
No more unread articles
Moving to [Google Mail]/Trash: (8823)...
Are you sure you want to quit reading news? (y or n)  y
Saving c:/Users/Christoph/AppData/Roaming/.newsrc.eld...
Saving file c:/Users/Christoph/AppData/Roaming/.newsrc.eld...
Wrote c:/Users/Christoph/AppData/Roaming/.newsrc.eld
Saving c:/Users/Christoph/AppData/Roaming/.newsrc.eld...done

Load-path shadows:
~/.emacs.d/plugins/python hides 
d:/devel/emacs/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/progmodes/python

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