Re: What happened to snappy low-bandwidth nnimap?

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

> I'm currently on vacation with no 3G and terrible reception to
> boot. We're talking roughly 2kb/s, so it's totally, like, 1992 or so.
>
> Gnus' nnimap used to be pretty snappy with low bandwidths, but now I get
> "Initial sync of 2 groups (please wait)" and it downloads about 700kb of
> data. While that in itself is pretty bad, I could probably live with it
> if it actually did this once, but it does it almost *every* time; so
> much for "initial".
>
> So my most pressing question is: how do I turn that off? I guess it's
> some new feature for fixing that long standing "wrong unread count"
> thingy, but please, I need my snappy Gnus back.
>
> -David
>

Having spent a lot of time getting to understand agent, queues, plugging
and levels and level specific downloads last summer on holiday I too
have now noted that imap connections are really really slow on low
bandwidth connections and it appears to be fetching a lot of data
despite nothing being new.