From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49480 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Fuchs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: please comment on my setup Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87u1g2w5j1.fsf@eris.void.at> References: <87k7gys8ht.fsf@unix.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043184952 8171 80.91.224.249 (21 Jan 2003 21:35:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:35:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18b63i-00027M-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:35:50 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18b63D-0006mS-00; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:35:19 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:36:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA27708 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:36:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18b61Q-0001w1-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:33:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18b61P-0001vs-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:33:27 +0100 Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Url: http://asf.void.at/ X-Attribution: asf X-Face: 3*3w/y?I6|`'CYW7F~m0]U1)L\|[x"?/V6^;s3FU#q|F'AL(3C?$eslHvAmR:KjT"&LZeqM 0wMS%HM` Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mjnwrj8dMeA6zvUmpx1WojeZBvQ= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49480 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49480 Today, wrote: > To make my gnus portable, I'm putting my .gnus file on a crypto fs on > a portable USB drive. Nice idea! I'm worried about losing the drive, though. Not so much about the data that will be in somebody else's hands, but about the mails which will be lost. I hope you have a good backup strategy. (-: > 1. all incoming personal mail gets downloaded from various POP > servers to their respective Maildirs, which are on the portable > crypto drive. When I run gnus, nnmail-split-fancy will split and > archive this mail on the drive. Sounds good. > 2. all incoming mailing list mail stays in IMAP on server. When I > run gnus, nnimap-split-fancy will split this mail on the server. > The purpose of this is to reduce bandwidth and time during mail > download. Hm, I have thought of doing something similar (but without the cyrpto drive). Now I use gmane.org, which does the same things, but is generally easier to use, needs no splitting, and a "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" is a "u" away in the group buffer. If that's not good enough, you could use procmail splitting rules, which are also faster than nnimap-split-fancy. > My gnus groups buffer will show me all groups from these three > classes. Nice. > My main concern is, since I'm moving from having fetchmail always > running on a single host, downloading in the background, to gnus > synchronously doing the downloading whenever I run "M-x gnus", am I > going to be frustrated by the download times? I'm especially worried > about IMAP splitting taking a long time. Is there any way to make it > asynchronous? asynchronous is an interesting idea. You could run a slave gnus which reads only the first two classes of mails in a separate emacs (or even all three, if you use gmane (-:). HTH, -- Andreas Fuchs, , asf@jabber.at, antifuchs