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From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@users.sf.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Reading old news
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:05:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyg9oyyh.fsf@savara.sat.thregr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyg9ii99.fsf@dod.no>

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:50:42 +0100, Steinar Bang wrote:
>> Can I get the last week worth of articles from a group directly? nnir
>> on large groups is slow if all I need is a search in the last ~500
>> articles.  Right now to do that I simply enter an existing group,
>> enter a large (but random) number of articles to read, then limit.
>
> nnir speed is dependent on the search efficiency of the IMAP server, so
> the best way to get a speedup would be to get improved indexing on the
> server (if possible).
>
> What IMAP server do you use?
>
> If you're using dovecot I would personally be interested in any speedups
> you could achieve (too lazy to do the research myself...;-) ).

I'm using dovecor allright, though I'm not really interested in speeding
up nnir (which, by the way, is faster than sylpheed mail search anyway),
I'm looking for better ways to read an old group.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-12 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-12 10:35 Yuri D'Elia
2011-02-12 11:50 ` Steinar Bang
2011-02-12 19:05   ` Yuri D'Elia [this message]
2011-02-13 19:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-07-14  0:44 Karl Asha

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