Re: Exchange Updating Info Problem

[Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>]

>>>>> "TZ" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

   TZ> For me it generates a long list of integers (UIDs) on an Exchange 2007
   TZ> server (see at end).  Are you seeing something different?  If it's just
   TZ> the 15K article UID numbers, it's unlikely to be the main reason for the
   TZ> slowness on the Gnus side.  I see much more than that in other
   TZ> non-Exchange IMAP groups.  Could it be that Exchange itself is slow, or
   TZ> something else is causing the slowness in Gnus?  If you can run this
   TZ> IMAP command directly against the Exchange server, that would be great.

   TZ> Here's a function to run an IMAP ALL search (untested but copied from
   TZ> working code) which will pop up in the debugger a list of all the
   TZ> messages in the mailbox and two timestamps around the SEARCH operation.
   TZ> You may have to play with it:

   TZ>   (let ((user "you")              ; edit
   TZ> 	(server "yourserver")     ; these
   TZ> 	(password "yourpassword") ; parameters
   TZ> 	(mailbox "INBOX.test"))   ; first
   TZ>     (with-current-buffer (imap-open server nil 'ssl)
   TZ>       (imap-authenticate user password)
   TZ>       (imap-mailbox-select mailbox)      
   TZ>       (debug (format-time-string "before search: %T")
   TZ>              (imap-search "ALL") 
   TZ>              (format-time-string "after search: %T"))
   TZ>       (imap-close)))

   TZ> Hit `q' to close the debugger.  If this is fast, then the "UID SEARCH
   TZ> SEEN" IMAP command is probably fast too.

Ted,

I must have done something stupid last night but I ran this test again
and this time it worked.

Start Time: 12:19:31
End Time:   12:20:50

So it is well over a minute to enter the group.  With Exchange 5.5 I did
not have this problem.

...Jake


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