Re: Three problems with multiple IMAP accounts

[Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>]

Mark Plaksin <happy@usg.edu> writes:

> I had the very same problem until I added all of my IMAP servers as
> secondary-select-methods.

I've always added them to gnus-secondary-select-methods in my ~/.gnus:

,----[ C-h v gnus-secondary-select-methods RET ]
| gnus-secondary-select-methods's value is shown below.
| [...]
| Value:
| ((nnimap "Local"
|          (nnimap-address "server.jknet")
|          (nnimap-stream ssl)
|          (nnir-search-engine imap))
|  (nnimap ""
|          (nnimap-address "imap.blackdown.de")
|          (nnimap-stream ssl)
|          (nnir-search-engine imap)))
`----

> I also had to G E each nnimap group in the Group buffer and make
> sure the short name of the server was specified.

> And then did G E on all my nnimap groups so they looked like this:
> ("nnimap+SERVER:Mail/happy" 1
> ((1 . 119))
> "SERVER" ;; changed this from "nnimap+SERVER:Mail/happy" to "SERVER"

I see "nnimap:" (resp. "nnimap:Local") at that place.  E.g.

("nnimap:Lists/Auriga" 3
 ((1 . 196))
 ((seen
   (1 . 196))
  (recent 196))
 "nnimap:"
 ((uidvalidity . "1097242187")
  (to-list . "auriga@yahoogroups.de")
  (subscribed . t)
  (broken-reply-to . t)))

If I change that to just "" (resp. "Local"), I can't enter the group
anymore (gnus-server-opened: Trying to require a method that doesn't
exist).

> ((timestamp 16916 1783)
> (uidvalidity . "1107056107")))

> After making this change Gnus was *much* faster.

For me problem 3 was the bigest performance issue.  The more groups
with the same name on both servers existed, the longer 'g' took.

Back to problem 1, I only recently noticed this reconnecting issue.  I
can't remember if it was always there or if it was introduced by some
recent change.


        Juergen

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