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From: Simon Josefsson <sj@extundo.com>
Cc: Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net>,
	The Gnus Mailing List <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: mail split with multiple backends
Date: 26 Oct 2000 23:57:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilu1yx3feq7.fsf@barbar.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafn1frz4fr.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> > Quite a lot, I think, in the case of IMAP.  AIUI, it uses IMAP's
> > move command while splitting - if it didn't, it would have to
> > download each article and upload it again.
> 
> That's silly, of course.  I think that all of Gnus could benefit from
> a faster move method.  So why don't we add logic to Gnus which allows
> a faster move?  The logic would take the source and target groups as
> input, then decide whether a fast move is possible, and invoke the
> fast move function as applicable.

This wouldn't help non-IMAP mail splitting since they don't use "move"
or "copy" at all, but rather "append".  Which is good and fast for
nnmail-like backends.  A backend independent splitter that used
backend optimizations where possible, with a user interface something
along the lines of

http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/199901/msg00485.html

would be nice, and not very difficult, I think.




  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-26 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-20 19:38 joules
2000-10-20 21:16 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-10-20 21:41   ` Rob Browning
2000-10-21  0:51     ` Harry Putnam
2000-10-21  4:45       ` Rob Browning
2000-10-21 11:09         ` Harry Putnam
2000-10-21 14:58           ` Rob Browning
2000-10-21 16:39         ` Kai Großjohann
2000-10-21 17:27           ` Rob Browning
2000-10-21 18:18             ` Kai Großjohann
2000-10-23  9:46   ` Didier Verna
2000-10-23 10:54     ` Kai Großjohann
2000-10-23 12:03       ` Didier Verna
2000-10-23 12:25         ` Kai Großjohann
2000-10-26 17:34           ` Toby Speight
2000-10-26 21:19             ` Kai Großjohann
2000-10-26 21:57               ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2000-10-21  1:01 ` Harry Putnam

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