From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82125 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What happened to snappy low-bandwidth nnimap? Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:03:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87sjby8rpx.fsf@randomsample.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344456210 10800 80.91.229.3 (8 Aug 2012 20:03:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 20:03:30 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30393=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 08 22:03:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SzCTV-0000GC-H2 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:03:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1SzCTU-0001cU-I4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:03:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1SzCTT-0001cP-PM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:03:23 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SzCTS-0002lD-C3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:03:23 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SzCTQ-0002yj-AR for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:03:20 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SzCTO-0008RC-8h for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:03:18 +0200 Original-Received: from 64.125.186.166 ([64.125.186.166]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:03:18 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 64.125.186.166 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:03:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.125.186.166 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FAnH+ZjXZ8uRDJYV6qVl81IDTaQ= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82125 Archived-At: on Tue Aug 07 2012, David Engster wrote: > I'm currently on vacation with no 3G and terrible reception to > boot. We're talking roughly 2kb/s, so it's totally, like, 1992 or so. > > Gnus' nnimap used to be pretty snappy with low bandwidths, but now I get > "Initial sync of 2 groups (please wait)" and it downloads about 700kb of > data. While that in itself is pretty bad, I could probably live with it > if it actually did this once, but it does it almost *every* time; so > much for "initial". Ditto. My connections aren't as slow, but I'm having the same "initial"-sync-over-and-over problem. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost