Re: rmail-total-messages has two different values, one is wrong

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2023 15:30:07 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > From: Andrea Monaco <andrea.monaco@autistici.org>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 14:51:15 +0200
> > 
> > 
> > I think the problem is in rmail-count-new-messages.  The function runs
> > in the main buffer, so this assignment
> > 
> > 
> >     (setq rmail-total-messages
> >       (+ rmail-total-messages total-messages))
> > 
> > 
> > should be duplicated for the summary buffer (maybe the same goes for
> > other assignments in that function, I don't know).
> > 
> > But this bug is not nasty, so we could just document the current
> > behavior.  What do you think?
> 
> I think it's a bug: the value in the summary buffer should tell how
> many messages are shown in the summary.
> 
> Does the patch below give good results?  Please try it both with
> "normal" summaries and with various filtering alternatives.

No further comments, so I've now installed the change on the master
branch.