From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68680 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-secondary-select-methods: what's the point? Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:21:51 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <871vorgeuo.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8763fnbhpp.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247081119 20251 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2009 19:25:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:25:19 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17107@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jul 08 21:25:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MOclU-0004Vt-87 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:25:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MOclM-0001jr-Q2; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:25:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MOclL-0001je-OR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MOclL-0007a2-3y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MOcls-0001XW-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:25:36 +0200 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MOclK-00052c-VL for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:25:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oD0b2bsIr5F6d3aA51QvHuMu+os= X-Spam-Score: -1.5 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68680 Archived-At: On Wed, 27 May 2009 11:58:35 -0400 Mark Plaksin wrote: MP> David Engster writes: >> Mark Plaksin 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