From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70508 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: That newfangled IMAP thing... Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:22:28 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87fwxo5nqj.fsf@dod.no> References: <87pqwslybb.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283692979 27657 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2010 13:22:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 13:22:59 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18883@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Sep 05 15:22:57 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsFBQ-0004IL-Kv for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:22:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OsFBH-0002lx-QF; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:22:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OsFBG-0002lh-JJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:22:46 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OsFBC-0000sV-8X for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:22:46 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OsFBB-0008T5-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:22:41 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsFB9-0004CZ-Ep for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:22:39 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.200.46.getinternet.no ([84.208.200.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:22:39 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.200.46.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:22:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.200.46.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OwkLULNiYnWVAAk9Q//Z1jvxE5A= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70508 Archived-At: >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > So nnimap pulls down the all the messages from the INBOX folder, > applies the splitting rules, and then moves the messages to the other > folders on the IMAP server, creating the folders if they don't exist? > That sounds like something that can be made faster with streaming. > :-) There are other things to consider: IMAP allows you to pull down the header information, and even the IMAP structure of a message, and then move the messages _on_ the server, without downloading them, or downloading all of them. Actually, I think `B m' moves messages between IMAP folders, without actually downloading them. I'm not sure, but I think so. Having partial downloads of messages in nnimap has been a request for a long time. > The MTA we're using is Dovecot, so I thought I'd just set up an IMAP > backend there. Dovecot is an easy IMAP server to deal with, and very robust (I wouldn't have called it an MTA though. Exim4 is my MTA, Dovecot is my IMAP server). > But I could also create a Gmail account, just to try... Yup, it's good to try more than one server at the same time, and several kinds of server.