Re: gnus-secondary-select-methods: what's the point?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 27 May 2009 11:58:35 -0400 Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org> wrote: 

MP> David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>> Mark Plaksin <happy@usg.edu> writes:
>> 
>>> There's a big difference for me with IMAP.  If my groups are foreign
>>> then checking for new messages is very slow.  When they're not foreign I
>>> get "nnimap: Quickly checking mailbox BLAH" and it really is much quicker.
>> 
>> The "quickly checking" means that nnimap checks the STATUS of the
>> mailboxes asynchronously, and this is controlled by
>> nnimap-retrieve-groups-asynchronous. I only skimmed through
>> nnimap-retrieve-groups, but I don't see how this behavior could depend
>> on the server being foreign or not.

MP> Interesting.  nnimap-retrieve-groups-asynchronous is the default (t) for
MP> me.  I'd love to be wrong about foreign IMAP groups being slow :)  But
MP> making them non-foreign is the only way I've been able to get "Quickly
MP> checking".

I've noticed this too (or rather, I use foreign IMAP groups and have
never noticed "Quickly checking").  It's annoyed me a lot but I have not
investigated in depth, unfortunately, assuming the server was just being
slow.

Ted