From: "Lars Tobias Børsting" <lars.tobias.borsting@ntnu.no>
Subject: Re: nnimap check for new mail in the background
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:01:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83acf5f3c0.fsf@ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluy82t9o6h.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:39:02 +0100")
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> Historically, the reason for the "update info" message was that your
> groups' server method (type `G e' on the group in the *Group* buffer)
> said (nnimap "foo") rather than "nnimap:foo". Changing the former
> into to the latter would solve the problem.
OK, I changed all my groups to "nnimap:foo" now.
> It should not print the "Updating info" messages -- that will be much
> slower than regular new mail checking. It should only say "Quickly
> checking mailbox foo", for each nnimap mailbox.
It isn't saying "Quickly checking mailbox foo", it says "nnimap:
Checking mailboxes...". It is also approximatelyten thousand times
faster than before, so thanks a lot! :-)
> However, recently (perhaps last month) I have noticed that Gnus CVS
> say "Updating info" for me too. Not always, but sometimes. So I
> think we have another bug.
So, it doesn't say "Updating info" anymore after I changed to
"nnimap:foo".
> Lars Tobias Børsting writes:
>
>> Is it possible to do new mail checking in a separate thread that runs
>> in the background, so that it doesn't lock up the interface? If not,
>> is it hard to implement such a feature?
>
> It should be possible. Implement something run with the idle timer
> and iterate over all groups. The problem is in informing Gnus about
> the update -- there is no clean API to do that. It could be added,
> but I don't know how.
Would it be possible to do what gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group does
when updating each modified group?
--
Regards,
Lars Tobias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-13 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-09 3:20 Lars Tobias Børsting
2005-12-10 11:39 ` Simon Josefsson
2005-12-11 6:22 ` D. Michael McFarland
2005-12-12 15:52 ` Simon Josefsson
2005-12-13 14:45 ` Lars Tobias Børsting
2005-12-14 3:05 ` D. Michael McFarland
2005-12-14 14:14 ` Simon Josefsson
[not found] ` <ilufyovhil3.fsf-Hx3HMpEclzRikQyLtWShHUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2005-12-14 20:43 ` Jochen Küpper
2005-12-15 10:49 ` Simon Josefsson
2005-12-13 15:01 ` Lars Tobias Børsting [this message]
2005-12-13 16:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2005-12-14 10:31 ` Lars Tobias Børsting
2005-12-14 14:12 ` Simon Josefsson
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