Re: Pre-Processed maiil splitting under Gnus?

[Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu>]

> I love Gnus.  However I'm running it on a Cyrix 686 150 with 64 Megs na
> RAM and even so watching Gnus split and filter my incoming mail is
> _so_mind_blisteringly_slow_ that I simply can't cope anymore :)
> 
> (Note: I'm NOT slamming Gnus here.  It's elisp, and given the number of
>  sexpr's it has to eval per message filtered I think it does a *fine*
>  job.  It's just that every time I go to read my mail, it gets more and
>  more painful every day to spend 5+ minutes watching Gnus go *chuggachugga*)
> 
> So.. Is there a away, maybe with XEmacs in batch mode or whatever, to have
> some sort of daemonized Gnus process pre-filter my mail so that when I log
> in it'll be all split as it should be?
> 
> I looked at using procmail, but the procmail/nnfolder solution seems complex
> and I want to make sure I'm not missing something before I go convert my
> 1.5 pages of nnmail-split-methods into procmail syntax.

I don't think the procmail solution is very complicated.  Don't use
procmail to save directly to a nnfolder file.  Instead, have it save
your messages into multiple (pre-filtered) spool files, which Gnus will
incorporate directly into the correct group.  There is an entry in the
Gnus FAQ that shows exactly how to set this up.  It's pretty easy (from
the perspective of Gnus).  That is assuming you know how to use
procmail (which is not that hard).

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Richard Coleman
coleman@math.gatech.edu