Re: nnimap backend performances ?

[Xavier Maillard <lists.emacs.gnus@xavier.maillard.im>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Xavier Maillard <lists.emacs.gnus@xavier.maillard.im> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Currently I am fetching my incoming mails using a fantastic tool:
>> offlineimap. Mails are then deserved by a local imap server (dovecot) on which
>> Gnus is connected. So far so good.
>>
>> As far as I can remeber, I do this from the age of stone principally because,
>> nnimap was considered pretty slow and also because I was nomade and it was
>> comfortable to do this.
>>
>> Today, is it considered harmful to fetch my mail in "direct connect" to my
>> remote imap server ?
>
> My understanding is that the nnimap backend was re-written quite
> significantly two or three years ago (?). At any rate, the people who
> used the first iteration and were horrified now seem mostly happy with
> the new version, YMMV. I used to use isync and local dovecot, now use
> the direct connection, and it doesn't kill me. It isn't great (I'm in
> China), but it doesn't kill me.

Understand. SO this is definetely something I should test again and
reconsider.

THank you for the feedback.

-- Xavier.