From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4025 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nobody@nowhere.invalid (Unknown) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.spam.detected Subject: Re: External delivery: Pros and cons Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Sender: srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu Message-ID: <9638.53962389312$1042179050@news.gmane.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144833 28295 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:13:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id CAA05620 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 02:41:14 -0800 Original-Received: from plymouth.pilgrim.umass.edu (plymouth.pilgrim.umass.edu [128.119.60.55]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:40:52 +0100 Original-Received: (from srivasta@localhost) by plymouth.pilgrim.umass.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id EAA07130; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 04:40:50 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Spam-Report: 6.8 hits, 5 required; * 4.3 -- Missing From: header * 2.0 -- Missing Date: header * 0.5 -- Invalid Date: header (not RFC 822) Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4025 gmane.spam.detected:55884 X-Report-Unspam: http://unspam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4025 X-Geek-3: GE/CS d+(--) s:++>: a C++++$ ULUHO++++$ P+++$ L+++ E+++ W+++$ N+++ K-? !w--- O-? !M-- !V-- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP++ t@ 5++ !X R++ b+++ DI+++ D- G e+++ h+ r++ y+ X-Face: #q.#]5@vq!Jz+E0t_/;Y^gTjR\T^"B'fbeuVGiyKrvbfKJl!^e|e:iu(kJ6c|QYB57LP*|t&YlP~HF/=h:GA6o6W@I#deQL-%#.6]!z:6Cj0kd#4]>*D,|0djf'CVlXkI,>aV4\}?d_KEqsN{Nnt778"OsbQ["56/!nisvyB/uA5Q.{)gm6?q.j71ww.>b9b]-sG8zNt%KkIa>xWg&1VcjZk[hBQ>]j~`WqXl,y1a!(>6`UM{~'X[Y_,Bv+}=L\SS*mA8=s;!=O`ja|@PEzb&i0}Qp,`Z\:6:OmRi* X-Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 X-Time: Fri Nov 17 04:40:49 1995 X-Mail-System: Vm 5.95 (beta) for GNU Emacs 19.14 XEmacs Lucid (beta5) References: <199511151538.HAA00082@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca> From: Manoj Srivastava Date: 17 Nov 1995 04:40:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: Brian Edmonds's message of Wed, 15 Nov 1995 07:38:25 -0800 Message-ID: Organization: Project Pilgrim, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Lines: 42 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.14 Hi, >>"Brian" == Brian Edmonds writes: Date> 15 Nov 1995 03:01:39 -0500 >> Cons> Brian> One con you forgot that used to bother me a lot: when you Brian> filter incoming messages, you end up with one (potentially Brian> large: perl) process per message. If you're on a system like Brian> mine where I retrieve mail via UUCP once per hour, all those Brian> processes starting up at once can put a serious strain on the Brian> system. I have blown out my virtual space once in the past Brian> when I was only running with 20M. If you use mailagent as your external splitting agent, then the filtering is two phased, each mail message invokes a small filter written in C, that spools the files locally, and calls the (potentially large) perl mailagent just once for a batch of files. I think it would solve your problem with batch downloads (works great for me on a linux box). Brian> I find splitting the mail inside emacs is pretty quick, unless Brian> you've got hundreds of messages, and far kinder on my hard Brian> drive and system performance. As it is, just punting Brian> everything through sendmail at once produces a noticable lag. Well, I need mailagent for other things, and did not feel like maintaining two sets of filtering rules. Brian> Brian. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds manoj -- Burnt Sienna. That's the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas. Ken Weaver Manoj Srivastava Project Pilgrim, Department of Computer Science Phone: (413) 545-3918 A143B Lederle Graduate Research Center Fax: (413) 545-1249 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 email:srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/~srivasta/