From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: how to speed up connection to a imap server
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:00:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzb7zdav.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763nnfs1d.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:02:38 +0200")
Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
Hi Uwe,
> > The only thing that will speed up things quite a lot is to install a
> > local imap server and let gnus connect to it. Syncing between
> > ucimap.ucm.es and the local server can be done with offlineimap [1], for
> > example.
>
> That is an interesting idea. Have you done it?
Yes.
> Which imap server do you recommend?
I use dovecot. It's not too hard to configure and doesn't have a big
memory footprint. And I use offlineimap to sync my two imap accounts
with the local dovecot server.
Several others on the list use the same setup, AFAICT.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-20 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 9:51 Uwe Brauer
2008-10-20 10:44 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-10-20 11:02 ` Uwe Brauer
2008-10-20 12:00 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2008-10-20 12:57 ` Uwe Brauer
2008-10-20 13:25 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-10-20 13:49 ` Uwe Brauer
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