From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61536 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap check for new mail in the background Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:14:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87irtzhs6x.fsf@ntnu.no> <87y82sp2yw.fsf@katrine.ae.uiuc.edu> <83hd9df435.fsf@ntnu.no> <873bkwqsx9.fsf@katrine.ae.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134569854 13986 80.91.229.2 (14 Dec 2005 14:17:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:17:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10068@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 14 15:17:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmXP0-0003f8-7R for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:14:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EmXOv-0005Lv-00; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:14:37 -0600 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EmXOd-0005Lq-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:14:19 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EmXOb-0006xR-Ba for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:14:19 -0600 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EmXOZ-0007AW-00 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:14:16 +0100 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (jas@yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id jBEEE78v023557 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:14:07 +0100 Original-To: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt X-Hashcash: 1:21:051214:dmmcf@uiuc.edu::dyfatEQRlg6haRET:0tS7 X-Hashcash: 1:21:051214:ding@gnus.org::+xyEytHpA9Ips/+e:6wsb In-Reply-To: <873bkwqsx9.fsf@katrine.ae.uiuc.edu> (D. Michael McFarland's message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:05:54 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on yxa-iv X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by yxa.extundo.com id jBEEE78v023557 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61536 Archived-At: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) writes: > Lars Tobias B=F8rsting writes: > >> I closed Gnus, opened .newsrc.eld and did 'M-%' (search and replace >> string) (nnimap "foo") to "nnimap:foo as Simon suggested. That was >> far quicker than doing 'G e' on every group. > > "Far quicker," indeed. :-) (Where'd I get 233 IMAP mail groups?) And > the speed-up in mail checking is remarkable. Thanks for your > response, and Simon's, of course. My only remaining question is, > where is this stuff documented? There's no telling what else I'm > missing.... It is not documented because it is not intended to happen. When it does occur, it is a bug. I don't know how to reproduce the bug, so I can't fix it... Perhaps this could go into a FAQ about IMAP slowness, it seems many IMAP users run into this sooner or later. If someone wants to debug and fix it, that would be very useful.