From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81484 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: slow nnimap expiry (dubious patch) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:27:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874od8fjcc.fsf@nemi.mork.no> <1291291383-18946-1-git-send-email-bjorn@mork.no> <871v609xny.fsf_-_@nemi.mork.no> <87wrns8fsv.fsf@nemi.mork.no> <8739e03n4r.fsf_-_@ml1.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330266564 20840 80.91.229.3 (26 Feb 2012 14:29:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:29:24 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29764@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Feb 26 15:29:23 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 1S1f6H-0002r6-M5 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:29:21 +0100 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 1S1f5M-0006fc-E0; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:28:24 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1S1f5K-0006fR-E9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:28:22 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1S1f5F-0000sg-Fx for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:28:21 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S1f5D-0001Dn-F2 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:28:15 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S1f5C-00029P-BO for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:28:14 +0100 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:28:14 +0100 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:28:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.92 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cW5L5H57afNlLxj+IbRzMQPcCzs= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81484 Archived-At: on Tue Jan 03 2012, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > John Magorrian writes: > >> Here is a quick-and-dirty patch that seems to solve the problem (for >> nnimap at least) by modifying 'nnimap-request-expire-articles' to ask >> the server what articles it knows about. I don't think this is an ideal >> solution and I'm not even sure it's correct. > > It looks OK, but I think the real long-time solution is to tell Gnus > what articles really exist so that this sort of thing wouldn't be > necessary. However that's not going to happen during this development > cycle. Not sure what the bounds of the development cycle are, but my understanding from <87aa4pz1wi.fsf@gnus.org> is that you've now done this. Have you also fixed expiry accordingly? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com