Re: 'g' : get-new-news and fetch articles with agent and other

[Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org>]

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner <at> xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> > What do you mean by that ? 
> 
> The agent has no way to know that nnmail-use-long-file-names changed
> value.  Therefore, if you use the agent with
> nnmail-use-long-file-names set to nil then change it to non-nil, the
> agent will not be able to find any of the content fetched before
> changing nnmail-use-long-file-names.

Ok. I understand this. But would it be difficult to change this behaviour or at
least add a function to update the agent ? I can start to write something but my
knowledge is quite limitted in Gnus (too many things). The trick would be to
force agent to re-read all its hierarchy and update it in consequence.

So renaming old 'foo/bar' to 'foo.bar' will not impact anything.

> > Not that performance only aplly for nntp groups since I recently
> > switched to nnimap.
> 
> I'll see if I can reproduce the problem here.

My impression is that Gnus tries to download its active (dunno if it is the
right term) file for the current group whenever I enter it. On small group it is
not a problem but entering gmane.emacs.gnus.general is really really long.
 
> > I have other problems with IMAP though.
>
> Sorry, you've already exceeded my knowledge of nnimap.

No problem :)

zeDek