From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77821 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP and IDLE... Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:46:17 +0100 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Message-ID: <87wrjzgouu.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300283675 2833 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2011 13:54:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:54:35 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26141@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Mar 16 14:54:30 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PzrB9-0008KM-UO for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:54:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PzrAv-0001Go-8F; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzr4b-0001Cg-UJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:47:37 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzr4X-000428-MI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:47:37 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzr4W-0005uQ-VI for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:47:32 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzr4W-0004Wt-PP for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:47:32 +0100 Original-Received: from zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.69.172]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:47:32 +0100 Original-Received: from ich by zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:47:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de X-Face: :EL9TzGRN){7|oE2~xQ8Q(VjpjsXgX$~gi&rYD5J5p)$w\Thdl~v:7h`/n)J!8nXT%_+Wj6}@EHM8}QbA(9nX-wrQ:ch1%DauV[?kFasXUcnL#+"K8zOx&$@/M'/},q-eztaJra1|?C+p$h\2XnK-HB"8_U Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77821 Archived-At: Greg Troxel writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> I've been sceptical to supporting IDLE before, since you can only IDLE >> on one mail box at a time. But it just occurred to me that if you're >> doing client-side splitting, just idling on the INBOX would suffice. > > True, but there's another situation where it is very useful. > > I split on the server into about 100 IMAP folders, at delivery time. > INBOX is special, as its mail that (in theory) I want to see promptly, > and the rest I only look at when I'm in a mail-processing mode. Yes, that's my setup too. Mailing lists are sorted into folders and mail directly addressed to me goes to INBOX. -- Have you ever considered how much text can fit in eighty columns? Given that a signature typically contains up to four lines of text, this space allows you to attach a tremendous amount of valuable information to your messages. Seize the opportunity and don't waste your signature on bullshit that nobody cares about.