From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61482 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_Tobias_B=F8rsting?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: nnimap check for new mail in the background Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:20:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87irtzhs6x.fsf@ntnu.no> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134145578 14487 80.91.229.2 (9 Dec 2005 16:26:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10014@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Dec 09 17:26:17 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ekl1R-0005Q5-TP for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:23:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Ekl15-0002Xs-00; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:22:39 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EkYoR-0001et-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:20:47 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EkYoK-00021E-RM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:20:47 -0600 Original-Received: from smtp.bluecom.no ([193.75.75.28]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EkYoJ-0004Wz-00 for ; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:20:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [62.101.234.140]) by smtp.bluecom.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0F416F6A7 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 04:19:24 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61482 Archived-At: 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? --=20 Regards, Lars Tobias B=F8rsting