From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: has "incorporating new mail" bug been fixed yet?
Date: 23 Dec 1999 22:15:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1n1r0amq7.fsf@halfdome.holdit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dsg@mitre.org's message of "23 Dec 1999 15:39:21 -0500"
>>>>> "David" == David S Goldberg <dsg@mitre.org> writes:
David> As you note, the problem is due to using a directory source, but it's
David> not the case that the existence of 50-some .spool files causes the
David> problem. The problem is that you've got 50-some nnml groups at levels
David> 1 and 2 and the directory is being searched for a file for each one,
David> whether or not such a file exists. This is apparently (to me, based
David> on the explanation I only vaguely recall from Simon) due to nnml not
David> having a particular feature in the nnml-request-scan function. I've
David> tried to look at what Simon did with nnimap-request-scan, but I just
David> plain don't get the code. This is, in my opinion, a side effect of
David> the design of mail-source versus the old procmail specific code. I am
David> quite certain that Lars is aware of this, I'm not so certain he
David> considers it a bug.
Well, when qgnus issues only one message, but pgnus issues hundreds of
messages, I can't see how that would not be considered a "bug" or at
least a degradation in performance.
I know, "patches welcome". Maybe I'll have to dust off my elisp
reading skills.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-24 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-23 17:51 Randal L. Schwartz
1999-12-23 18:23 ` David S. Goldberg
1999-12-23 20:16 ` Randal L. Schwartz
1999-12-23 18:39 ` Bud Rogers
1999-12-23 20:18 ` Randal L. Schwartz
1999-12-23 20:39 ` Bud Rogers
1999-12-23 20:39 ` David S. Goldberg
1999-12-24 6:15 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
1999-12-24 23:46 ` Simon Josefsson
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