From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50380 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mailbox foo modified -- for all groups? Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:26:28 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84fzqc3ifc.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046179672 19267 80.91.224.249 (25 Feb 2003 13:27:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:27:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18nf7e-00050b-00 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:27:50 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18nf6h-0002FU-00; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:26:51 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:27:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA09524 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:27:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 60708 invoked by alias); 25 Feb 2003 13:26:32 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 60703 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2003 13:26:32 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 25 Feb 2003 13:26:32 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1PDQSXf014942 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:26:29 +0100 Original-To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030225:kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de:3c7f4b0141c0abb8 X-Hashcash: 0:030225:kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de:3c7f4b0141c0abb8 X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030225:ding@gnus.org:360239330218e74a X-Hashcash: 0:030225:ding@gnus.org:360239330218e74a In-Reply-To: <84fzqc3ifc.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de's message of "Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:53:27 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50380 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50380 kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > When I say `g', it tells me `Mailbox foo modified' for many different > groups foo, including many that haven't changed in a year or so. A > subsequent `J s' then fetches headers for all those groups (it > seems), which takes quite a while. > > How come Gnus thinks these groups are modified, and is there a way to > tell it they aren't, and can the agent skip trying to fetch headers > for them? Did you frob nnimap-retrieve-groups-asynchronous? The code works by comparing UIDVALIDITY and UIDNEXT, and if any of those has changed, the message is printed. Perhaps edebugging nnimap-retrieve-groups helps?