Re: Gnus and Gmail?

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Olivier Sirven <the.slaa@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2011-03-07 04:32:03, Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> wrote:
>> Suggestions?  Things to try?
>
> Hey,
>
> I'm using gmail too for my emails and my suggestion is to work with
> the IMAP protocol. That being said, their IMAP server is pretty slow so
> the solution I found which is working just fine is to use offlineimap to
> sync my gmail account with a local dovecot imap server.
> This way everything is fast as light.
>
> --
> Olivier
>

Using offlineimap with gmail can cause real hassles. I used it for
ages. Not least if you have more than one account and you start having
to do name translations.

I recently stopped using following yet another "complete download" which
resulted from some unusual issue with syncing multiple cients using
offlineimap. I had advocated it before- But no more.

Get noGnus from the git repo. It works really, really well with a direct
imap connection.

I have thousands upon thousands of gmail spread over 3 accounts and
connection and update is just about instant.

The only issue is that I gave up on splitting - its simply too
complicated for me to get working. You need to know elisp backwards from
what I can gather. But thats not too bad since all my email is gmail
based and I use server side filters to label the mails.