From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82122 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What happened to snappy low-bandwidth nnimap? Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:41:47 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87sjby8rpx.fsf@randomsample.de> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344440609 10900 80.91.229.3 (8 Aug 2012 15:43:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 15:43:29 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30390@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 08 17:43:29 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 1Sz8Pw-0000xt-Qr for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:43:29 +0200 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 1Sz8Od-0000QV-EH; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:42:07 -0500 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 1Sz8Ob-0000QM-RK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:42:05 -0500 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 1Sz8OZ-0001Rh-TE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:42:05 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz8OX-0005G5-SQ for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:42:01 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz8OW-00074u-Df for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:42:00 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-109-47-0-13.web.vodafone.de ([109.47.0.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:41:59 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by ip-109-47-0-13.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:41:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-109-47-0-13.web.vodafone.de X-Message-Smtp-Method: smtp smtp.gmail.com 587 rileyrg Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9WWqAGxIQ+BNG6xdauI78EacrPA= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82122 Archived-At: David Engster 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.