From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86458 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: myglc2 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap backend performances ? Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:25:09 -0500 Message-ID: <87twn19hwq.fsf@gmail.com> References: <874mgh1amt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451534787 11114 80.91.229.3 (31 Dec 2015 04:06:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 04:06:27 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34690@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Dec 31 05:06:15 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aEUVD-0004tl-AG for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 05:06:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aEUVA-0001Iv-SU; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:06:12 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aESRx-0000kz-6F for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:54:45 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aESRw-0004dE-BM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:54:45 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aDzyA-0001F3-Ck for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:30:06 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aDzy8-0007sO-3e for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:30:04 +0100 Original-Received: from c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([73.167.118.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:30:04 +0100 Original-Received: from myglc2 by c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:30:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MTk/pFM2FblnrQ7rkPVRFqdwAEU= X-Spam-Score: -1.8 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86458 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > My understanding is that the nnimap backend was re-written quite > significantly two or three years ago (?). At any rate, the people who > used the first iteration and were horrified now seem mostly happy with > the new version, YMMV. I used to use isync and local dovecot, now use > the direct connection, and it doesn't kill me. It isn't great (I'm in > China), but it doesn't kill me. > > eric So Eric, it sounds like you abandoned ... https://ericabrahamsen.net/tech/2014/oct/gnus-dovecot-lucene.html ... which I was following & hit the "plain" auth issue you discussed ~1yr ago on the isync list. Could you say more about your isycn-dovecot experience and why you moved back to direct. Many thanks --george