From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61527 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap check for new mail in the background Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:05:54 -0600 Message-ID: <873bkwqsx9.fsf@katrine.ae.uiuc.edu> References: <87irtzhs6x.fsf@ntnu.no> <87y82sp2yw.fsf@katrine.ae.uiuc.edu> <83hd9df435.fsf@ntnu.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134530278 27245 80.91.229.2 (14 Dec 2005 03:17:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:17:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10059@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 14 04:17:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmN7f-0000o6-Kx for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:16:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EmN7I-00045F-00; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:15:44 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EmMxy-00044Y-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:06:06 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EmMxs-0005s7-UI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:06:06 -0600 Original-Received: from expredir4.cites.uiuc.edu ([128.174.5.187]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EmMxr-00061R-00 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:06:00 +0100 Original-Received: from katrine.ae.uiuc.edu (katrine.ae.uiuc.edu [128.174.132.87]) by expredir4.cites.uiuc.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jBE35JwX010559 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:05:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from dmmcf by katrine.ae.uiuc.edu with local (Exim 4.50) id 1EmMxm-0001Jj-Gb for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:05:54 -0600 Original-To: ding@gnus.org 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") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61527 Archived-At: Lars Tobias B=C3=B8rsting 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 --=20 D. Michael McFarland, Research Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champ= aign http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/~dmmcf/