Re: Does article prefetching work on IMAP?

[Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

>> Eric, could you please point me to a place where this should be
>> done? With some guidance, I should be able to do it.
>
> You mean write the code? That would be very welcome!
>
> Async/prefetching works by opening multiple connections to a single
> server. Those connections are stored and tracked in
> `nntp-connection-alist', for nntp, and `nnimap-connection-alist', for
> nnimap. nnimap.el has the code to handle multiple connections, but that
> functionality isn't currently used.
>
> The problem is in gnus-async.el, which is hard-coded to only work with
> nntp. I believe the only function that would need to be changed would be
> `gnus-async-wait-for-article', which currently calls
> `nntp-find-connection' and `nntp-accept-process-output': these calls
> would have to be abstracted to work with any server.
>
> Ideally we'd make *-find-connection a deffoo, and then add a
> `gnus-server-find-connection' function to gnus-int.el. I'm not sure how
> to handle getting rid of the `nntp-accept-process-output' call.
>
> Finally, you'd have to add:
>
> (deffoo nnimap-asynchronous-p ()
>   t)
>
> to nnimap.el, in order to set the whole thing in motion.
>

Yes. I meant to write code.

Thanks for sharing these valuable pointers. This should be okay to get
started.