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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: nnimap slow for message copy
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:23:46 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204261922330.20589-100000@yxa.extundo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vqod6wmo9w7.fsf@astazou.imag.fr>

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Nicolas Kowalski wrote:

> I have noticed some time ago that Pine is really faster at
> moving/copying mail from an IMAP folder to another, when both folders
> are on the same server. I also noticed that Gnus is really slow when
> performing the same action.
> 
> The following *imap-log* shows what happens when I do a copy 'B c'
> from one nnimap group to another, on the same server. The [...]
> contains the message. It seems lime Gnus never uses the IMAP COPY
> command. Is not there an optimization to do ?

Yup.  Do you want to do it? :-)

The problem is that the Gnus backend interface doesn't use COPY when 
copying something, I think, so it ends up using fetch+store.  Of course, 
the nnimap backend could detect this situation and use COPY instead. (As 
it does when moving messages, I think.)




  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-26 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-26 13:40 Nicolas Kowalski
2002-04-26 17:23 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-04-26 17:50   ` Jody Klymak
2002-04-26 18:07   ` Nicolas Kowalski
2002-04-26 22:25     ` Simon Josefsson

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