nnimap check for new mail in the background

["Lars Tobias Børsting" <lars.tobias.borsting@ntnu.no>]

Hi,

I have used Gnus for a couple of years now, and can't live without
it. I have just switched from getting mail via mbox spool to nnimap,
with CourierIMAP on the server. I have moved my dozens of mail groups
to nnimap groups. I like IMAP very much, except for one thing; it's very
slow to check for new mail.

With the nnmail backend, checking some dozens of groups was instant and
unnoticable. With nnimap, it's painfully slow. That would have been OK
if I could use Gnus in the meantime. However it locks up, showing
"nnimap: updating info for folder xxx...done" until it is done. This is
making me wait for about one minute until I can do something again.

Is it possible to do new mail checking in a separate thread that runs in
the background, so that it doesn't lock up the interface? If not, is it
hard to implement such a feature?

-- 
Regards,

Lars Tobias Børsting