Re: Entering nnimap group got much slower with 5.10

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> OK.  So now I understand that my day-to-day gnus experience won't be any
> different when using an agentized nnimap server, at least with regard to
> the commands I need to issue for reading, posting, replying, etc.

Yes.  If you discover anything else, please mention it.

> So in order to set this up, are these the only things I have to do?
>
> - make sure that the gnus-agent variable is set to t when 
>   starting gnus

Yup.  (It is the default.)

> - do a 'J s' in the server buffer for each nnimap group that I
>   wish to agentize

`J a'.

If you have never used the Agent before (~/News/agent/lib/servers
doesn't exist) this should happen automatically.  I guess you at some
point (before the agent revamp in Oort) tried the Agent, and it left a
.../servers file around that is now inhibiting the auto-adding of
nntp/nnimap groups.  This is probably why not more people are seeing
the slowdown -- for them, the agent is enabled for nnimap groups out
of the box.

It might be easier to simply rm -r ~/News/agent and restart Gnus.
(This should be possible to do at any time, I believe Gnus regenerates
all agent files if they are missing.)