Re: nnimap backend performances ?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:

> Xavier Maillard <lists.emacs.gnus@xavier.maillard.im> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> Xavier Maillard <lists.emacs.gnus@xavier.maillard.im> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Currently I am fetching my incoming mails using a fantastic tool:
>>>> offlineimap. Mails are then deserved by a local imap server (dovecot) on which
>>>> Gnus is connected. So far so good.
>>>>
>>>> As far as I can remeber, I do this from the age of stone principally because,
>>>> nnimap was considered pretty slow and also because I was nomade and it was
>>>> comfortable to do this.
>>>>
>>>> Today, is it considered harmful to fetch my mail in "direct connect" to my
>>>> remote imap server ?
>>>
>>> My understanding is that the nnimap backend was re-written quite
>>> significantly two or three years ago (?). At any rate, the people who
>>> used the first iteration and were horrified now seem mostly happy with
>>> the new version, YMMV. I used to use isync and local dovecot, now use
>>> the direct connection, and it doesn't kill me. It isn't great (I'm in
>>> China), but it doesn't kill me.
>>
>> Understand. SO this is definetely something I should test again and
>> reconsider.
>
> I never got back to this, but I'm curious. I'm running Gnus 5.13. Does that mean I've got the re-written NNIMAP back end?

It looks like the big re-write happened in Sep 2010, so earlier than I
thought, but there was also a pile of significant improvements in 2012
or thereabouts.

I don't actually know what version 5.13 signifies. Wikipedia says it was
bundled with Emacs 23.1 in 2009, but "wrapped up in early 2012 with
version 0.19". Do you have a minor version number, or some other way to
actually date the code?