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From: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland)
Subject: Re: nnimap check for new mail in the background
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:05:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bkwqsx9.fsf@katrine.ae.uiuc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83hd9df435.fsf@ntnu.no> (Lars Tobias =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B8rsting?= =?utf-8?Q?'s?= message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:45:34 +0100")

Lars Tobias Børsting <lars.tobias.borsting@ntnu.no> writes:

> I closed Gnus, opened .newsrc.eld and did 'M-%' (search and replace
> string) (nnimap "foo") to "nnimap:foo as Simon suggested. That was
> far quicker than doing 'G e' on every group.

"Far quicker," indeed. :-) (Where'd I get 233 IMAP mail groups?)  And
the speed-up in mail checking is remarkable.  Thanks for your
response, and Simon's, of course.  My only remaining question is,
where is this stuff documented?  There's no telling what else I'm
missing....

Best regards,
Michael

-- 
D. Michael McFarland, Research Associate Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/~dmmcf/



  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-14  3:05 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 [this message]
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
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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