2014-08-14 Gnus Mystery Emails

These days I have a Raspberry Pi running Dovecot running as my IMAP Server. I connect to this IMAP Server from my iPhone using Apple’s Mail and from my Laptop using Gnus. For a while now I have noticed that the two don’t list the same mails in my INBOX. In Gnus, I enter the group using C-u RET or I use / o to insert old articles and I see 14 mails. When I enter the Server buffer from the Group buffer using ^ and switch to the INBOX, I see 72 mails. What could be the reason for this?

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I don’t know if this is your issue or not, but Gnus has long had problems displaying counts in IMAP mailboxes. It has to do with “holes” in the sequence of message IDs.

– deong 2014-08-14 19:06 UTC

Yeah, it could be related... But in this case my nnimap group is really hiding emails from me which I can only get from the Server buffer. It’s as if the index for the group cache has “holes” in it?

– Alex Schroeder 2014-08-14 20:48 UTC