From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86313 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap backend performances ? Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:20:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <874mgh1amt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448050907 31554 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2015 20:21:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:21:47 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34545@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Nov 20 21:21:34 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzsBY-0007WM-Cd for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:21:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzsAq-0004Nq-Tt; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:20:48 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzsAn-0004NW-QC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:20:45 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzsAm-0005Wv-MW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:20:45 -0600 Original-Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzsAk-0001Wg-P8 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:20:43 +0100 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4652C202AA for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:20:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:20:41 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=maillard.im; h= content-type:date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=+dYUR Tuk4rX9E2I3lARY/kxffZc=; b=bJf72ukvnGb1R7dlv68G+5Q+Fgk1zuSGyYBYD WVVNIEg37mzQ8+5a7jbH46+aE/qp7ukTM8TQPt7CTuH4X1p4YuE2zuXN87ttzuDo 3JHTK9aDYc2H7nFARUuSZBQP/4s05HpG9NpdK53qbJicqlxzETc+0irUjObi3220 NfhzzQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=+dYURTuk4rX9E2I3lARY/kxffZc=; b=mPWEk G5BkQ/SxMz1T5b8KhhgM6/TPwTky04eiROwoMRqiF+oLjnJnr+NOj9yHowT1ZRez BOzhDwh3vZHm7w/zeE1kvWHiRgN9whJEBRdOlvj7ORgVekA4b8+WxTuLAk4Hhn/A jqr/2hF4N0CiLBqFnvC/BQ0QRFajfskmjYbUVA= X-Sasl-enc: tOByqXPovRR1SnD4dQZpgBrSdlXZBOtAmOcfN9KtyARW 1448050840 Original-Received: from kcals.intra.maillard.im (areims-651-1-39-129.w86-192.abo.wanadoo.fr [86.192.194.129]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7ABB56800F2 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:20:40 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus (0.14), GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0) X-Home-Page: https://xavier.maillard.im X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: 9983 DCA1 1FAC 8DA7 653A F9AA BA49 09B7 8F04 DE1B X-GPG: 0xBA4909B78F04DE1B X-Accept-Language: en, fr Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <874mgh1amt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:51:38 +0800") X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86313 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Xavier Maillard 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.