From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86307 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap backend performances ? Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:51:38 +0800 Message-ID: <874mgh1amt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447998798 24272 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2015 05:53:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 05:53:18 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34539@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Nov 20 06:53:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzecz-0003MD-89 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 06:52:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzeci-0008GV-US; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:52:41 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzecg-0008G0-VF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:52:39 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzecf-00012q-Nl for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:52:38 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzecd-0001Fn-R6 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 06:52:35 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzecU-0002he-3u for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 06:52:26 +0100 Original-Received: from 221.220.67.125 ([221.220.67.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 06:52:26 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 221.220.67.125 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 06:52:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.220.67.125 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v1jx2UqpvOLZHQzosaDxNBZrv7s= X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86307 Archived-At: Xavier Maillard 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. eric