From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38372 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap: Checking mailbox foo Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:43:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174246 22030 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:24:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:24:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 14011 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2001 20:43:51 -0000 Original-Received: from dolk.extundo.com (195.42.214.242) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Aug 2001 20:43:51 -0000 Original-Received: from barbar.josefsson.org (slipsten.extundo.com [195.42.214.241]) (authenticated) by dolk.extundo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f7RKhvh31237; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:43:58 +0200 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:31:15 +0200") Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 Original-Lines: 18 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38372 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38372 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > When I `g'et new news, nnimap tells me it's ``Checking mailbox foo'' > for every nnimap group I've got. This is much faster than the > ``Updating info for foo'' which I got when I started with nnimap. But > still, if you have many groups, it takes quite a bit of time. My boss > is complaining about it... > > So, is it possible to do something about this to make it even faster > than fast? > > What is nnimap doing when it is checking each mailbox? It is finding the "active info" (highest and lowest article number) for the group. Gnus needs this to find unread mail. It might be possible to collect this information in the background. Or altering the way Gnus looks for unread mail to make things faster.