From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28443 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: has "incorporating new mail" bug been fixed yet? Date: 23 Dec 1999 15:39:21 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87iu1p1oyx.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165289 29888 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:54:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:54:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5CC5D051F for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:41:50 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB20886; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:41:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:41:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12075 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:41:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (linus.mitre.org [129.83.10.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8835D051F for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:39:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from blackbird.mitre.org (blackbird [129.83.65.14]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA12608 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:39:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from dsg@localhost) by blackbird.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA19352; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:39:22 -0500 (EST) Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List X-Face: GUaHTH@nS>[7,ME@-gYZ4#Wl{z"99k@[[Y8AcP0x1paqu.,z9,XSV1WI>{q3f6^e5(zrit <4fV&VHhmE`uidRqtmG27;si9&r;#KSF~E#$%W8w(xdp)H4tW=\2XOk~3=@oGqqpj;m4xf Ow;y26396&,34@9#~4;@*S;E0cq"LM9N(us4P%F(Nxis'Vvfm9?KufH;:Q$dMa-QWGLR&K d0`LJZE8xb*>^yN>b]_NcU:E=Zn\1=#/(OS2 In-Reply-To: merlyn@stonehenge.com's message of "23 Dec 1999 12:18:00 -0800" Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28443 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28443 > Do you have a directory source? I use procmail-like software to > presort my mail, so I have (mumble) 50-some .spool files in my > ..incoming directory. And I see 50-some "new messages" messages > each time. It probably would be OK if GNUS deleted the files, but I > think we'd have a locking staredown problem at that point. Even if GNUS did delete the empty files, it wouldn't make a difference. As you note, the problem is due to using a directory source, but it's not the case that the existence of 50-some .spool files causes the problem. The problem is that you've got 50-some nnml groups at levels 1 and 2 and the directory is being searched for a file for each one, whether or not such a file exists. This is apparently (to me, based on the explanation I only vaguely recall from Simon) due to nnml not having a particular feature in the nnml-request-scan function. I've tried to look at what Simon did with nnimap-request-scan, but I just plain don't get the code. This is, in my opinion, a side effect of the design of mail-source versus the old procmail specific code. I am quite certain that Lars is aware of this, I'm not so certain he considers it a bug. -- Dave Goldberg Post: The Mitre Corporation\MS B325\202 Burlington Rd.\Bedford, MA 01730 Phone: 781-271-3887 Email: dsg@mitre.org