Re: (gnus-summary-goto-article <message-id>) extremely slow for certain IMAP server

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Ted Zlatanov writes:
> TH> On Monday 26 July 2010 21:27:13 David Engster wrote:
>>> Probably, but currently the registry does not keep track of the
>>> article numbers, only of the groups. I guess this could easily be
>>> added, though?
>
> Yes, but it wouldn't help for IMAP.  IMAP article numbers are too
> mutable.

I think it could help in many cases, since article numbers should be
pretty fixed as long as people don't respool (and I guess that the
registry could even deal with that since it's in the copy/move
hooks). 

But I agree that it is better to keep the registry out of the backend
business. :-)

> The registry tries to be above the backend level and article
> numbers are too close to that level.  But it's not hard at all to add
> extra data of any type; see gnus-registry-fetch-extra-entry and
> gnus-registry-store-extra-entry.  The registry marks use those functions.
>
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:29:12 +0200 David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote: 
>
> DE> (nth 1 (gnus-find-method-for-group group))
>
> I think (gnus-method-to-server-name (gnus-find-method-for-group group))
> is a little better.

This will get you a fully qualified name with the nnimap+ prefix, which
you'd then have to remove again for the nnimap backend functions.

-David