From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37442 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Backend writing Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 02:12:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172857 13898 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 492 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2001 00:11:37 -0000 Original-Received: from dolk.extundo.com (195.42.214.242) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Aug 2001 00:11:37 -0000 Original-Received: from barbar.josefsson.org (slipsten.extundo.com [195.42.214.241]) (authenticated) by dolk.extundo.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f740Bkw00810 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 02:11:47 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Fri, 03 Aug 2001 19:57:14 -0400") Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 Original-Lines: 13 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37442 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37442 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: >> Basicly, nnimap makes sure the old NOV cache isn't used when a >> uidvalidity has changed. [...] It gets sort of ugly if a backend >> has to update internal things of Gnus's cache and agent. > > Does this mean Gnus caches NOV data in memory? I can't find anything > about that in the manual, so maybe I'm misunderstanding. No, nnimap has it's own (disk) NOV cache. There was talk about moving the functionality into Gnus, because other backends might find a NOV cache nice, but nothing became of it. It shouldn't be difficult though, I think.