Re: Getting only latest X messages of a newsgroup

Hi Chris,

I see two ways:

- Get at most X latest articles: fetching the message headers using =20
(last - X) or first -> last as the range in NNTPFolder.getMessages()

- Get exactly the X latest articles: fetching the message headers =20
using first -> last and keeping only the latest X messages

Either way, the internal cache is used to prevent queries for =20
previously downloaded messages.
Once the getMessages() returned the array of X recent messages, their =20=

full content can be downloaded using fetch(Message[], FetchProfile)

There would be one property (for example 'mail.nntp.limittolatest' ) =20
that states the number of messages to download at most or exactly.
This property should be read each time before being used so that a =20
client could change the value before fetching each newsgroup.

C=C3=A9dric

Le 30 juil. 06 =C3=A0 09:41, Chris Burdess a =C3=A9crit :

> Cedric Hyppolite wrote:
>> I am trying to find a way to download only the latest post to a =20
>> newsgroup.
>> Is there a way to do this with the current API ?
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> As far as I can see there isn't a way to do this with the JavaMail =20
> API. You can do it pretty easily with the inetlib interface.
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> If you have any suggestions as to how this might be implemented =20
> using property extensions to the JavaMail nntp provider we could =20
> look at that.
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> =E7=8A=AC Chris Burdess
>   "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety
>   deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
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