Re: maildir and gnus

[Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Friday,  8 Apr 2022 at 14:34, Erik Colson wrote:
>> Some years ago I used Gnus extensively but eventually moved to mu4e for
>> speed reasons.
>> Today I'm reconsidering Gnus.  What is the recommended setup for mbsync
>> with local maildir usage?  Is speed still an issue?
>
> Hi Erik,
>
> speed can be an issue with nnmaildir.  It depends on what mbsync does to
> file update times in the various maildir directories.  I switched to
> nnml for my local email storage as it's a lot more efficient.  For
> nnmaildir, my groups had to be rescanned every time and this operation
> takes O(n^4) time, where n is the number of emails in the group.  The
> rescanning was necessary, in my case, because I was using unison to keep
> 3-4 systems in sync which meant that gnus had to regenerate the index
> tables it uses for each group.
>
> But if mbsync is smart, you may not encounter this issue.  Try it and
> see?

So I finally installed the thing: mbsync / dovecot / nnimap

Still some issues but not speed actually.

best
-- 
erik colson