From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81343 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: slow nnimap expiry (dubious patch) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:56:16 +0100 Organization: m Message-ID: <87y5s75cy7.fsf@nemi.mork.no> References: <874od8fjcc.fsf@nemi.mork.no> <1291291383-18946-1-git-send-email-bjorn@mork.no> <871v609xny.fsf_-_@nemi.mork.no> <87wrns8fsv.fsf@nemi.mork.no> <8739e03n4r.fsf_-_@ml1.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329153334 20476 80.91.229.3 (13 Feb 2012 17:15:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:15:34 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29623@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Feb 13 18:15:33 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RwzUs-00065A-GV for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:15:26 +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 1RwzUr-0003jK-EU; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:15:25 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Rwri5-0000sD-09 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:56:33 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Rwrhz-00065J-6j for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:56:32 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rwrhx-0007ry-61 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:56:25 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rwrhw-0004tf-Qq for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:56:24 +0100 Original-Received: from 193.160.199.2 ([193.160.199.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:56:24 +0100 Original-Received: from bjorn by 193.160.199.2 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:56:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.160.199.2 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11002 (No Gnus v0.20) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/hxfpO+J2Fdw9+jXdvFfDp/w2Wk= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81343 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > John Magorrian writes: > >> Here is a quick-and-dirty patch that seems to solve the problem (for >> nnimap at least) by modifying 'nnimap-request-expire-articles' to ask >> the server what articles it knows about. I don't think this is an ideal >> solution and I'm not even sure it's correct. > > It looks OK, but I think the real long-time solution is to tell Gnus > what articles really exist so that this sort of thing wouldn't be > necessary. However that's not going to happen during this development > cycle. Which would imply that this patch is the only possible fix for no-gnus. Please add it to that branch. FWIW, I've been using the patch on top of no-gnus since John posted it and haven't noticed any problems. And the nnimap expiry speed of my INBOX has gone from "will never ever finish during this universe's lifetime" to "noticable, but acceptable". Bjørn