From: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-secondary-select-methods: what's the point?
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:57:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ljoico9m.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ws8wkjs6j1.fsf@usg.edu>
on Tue May 26 2009, Mark Plaksin <happy-AT-usg.edu> wrote:
> David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>
>> In a nutshell, I see the following differences:
>>
>> * native method: doesn't have a prefix and will be ignored if you start
>> through gnus-no-server (only for groups with level >2).
>>
>> * secondary methods: do have a prefix, will not be ignored by
>> gnus-no-server (?).
>>
>> * foreign methods: won't be queried for new groups on startup. Server
>> vanishes if you unsubscribe from all its groups.
>>
>> Otherwise, it's more or less a matter of taste.
>
> There's a big difference for me with IMAP. If my groups are foreign
> then checking for new messages is very slow. When they're not foreign I
> get "nnimap: Quickly checking mailbox BLAH" and it really is much quicker.
OK, scratch that idea ;-)
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-27 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-26 19:25 David Abrahams
2009-05-26 22:52 ` David Engster
2009-05-27 1:01 ` Mark Plaksin
2009-05-27 8:37 ` David Engster
2009-05-27 15:58 ` Mark Plaksin
2009-07-08 19:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-05-27 19:57 ` David Abrahams [this message]
2009-05-27 19:57 ` David Abrahams
2009-05-27 22:08 ` David Engster
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