From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54908 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Moving from nnml to nnimap... Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:48:23 +1100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87he0ur0yg.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069638546 21659 80.91.224.253 (24 Nov 2003 01:49:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 01:49:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3448@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 24 02:49:04 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AO5qZ-0001yg-00 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:49:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AO5qA-0002JD-00; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:48:38 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AO5q5-0002J8-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:48:33 -0600 Original-Received: from enki.rimspace.net (unknown [203.174.146.130]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6693A0038 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:48:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by enki.rimspace.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4B519500D08; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:48:23 +1100 (EST) Original-To: Jinhyok Heo In-Reply-To: (Jinhyok Heo's message of "Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:59:22 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.5 (celeriac, linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54908 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54908 On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Jinhyok Heo wrote: > First of all, is there an easy way to move an existing nnml group to > nnimap one? I did try to use "B c" to move one to a new nnimap group, > but it was too slow for an large or huge group. I never found one, although you could possibly write a routine if you knew lisp well enough... > Secondly, what size of one nnimap group is appropriate? I think nnimap > will be slower than nnml and it is good to maintain appropriate size > of nnimap groups. Can you give me a rough size? With a real IMAP server, performance should be as good as, or better than, Gnus and nnml, in my experience. > Thirdly, is there a way to share gnus marks among xemacses on other > machines? I remember I saw an thread regarding this issue. I want to > know the current status of it. If you use IMAP, the marks are stored on the server... > Lastly, I use UW imap server, which doesn't seem to be recommended for > gnus. That would be because it's ... not very good, to put it mildly. The upstream policy on security issues ("use something else") was also not inspiring... > Does it have any defect unlike Courier or Cyrus imap? Well, the default use of 'mbox' folders will make your performance suck completely. :) I strongly recommend the Cyrus IMAP server. While it is much harder to get up and running than the competition, the performance is great and it's extremely powerful and useful. Courier is fine for small groups, but isn't a well featured IMAP server for the "shared" or "group" stuff that you can do (public and shared folders, for example). Daniel -- Anyone who doubts the value of [probabilistic] statements sould try to determine the total assets of insurance companies in America. This astonishing sum has been accumulated through skillful and successful prediction of the behaviour of large groups of people. -- Roy Weatherford, _Philosophical Foundations of Probability Theory_