From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86499 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Davis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap backend performances ? Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 07:04:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874mgh1amt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <874mew8y2q.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451736329 17903 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2016 12:05:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 12:05:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34723@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jan 02 13:05:12 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aFKvl-00071X-QN for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:05:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aFKvd-0001sj-S4; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 06:05:01 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aFKvb-0001sG-OY for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 06:04:59 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aFKvZ-000182-8Q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 06:04:59 -0600 Original-Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aFKvX-0005g4-PW for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:04:55 +0100 Original-Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2812A204AB for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2016 07:04:52 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 02 Jan 2016 07:04:52 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=uL5P3YpZTQ2npD5tJAh7kwXEen0=; b=nVloe Ya+bSx/tMAiNd5u9zC8qV1f/ohYiGrINftvt/31TzyhiVB1hpKzBH+ROyNmLJ18y 2cQdQMY11I8T7Z6gW6UywrvE1GlrsqU+19lXDstFmbwrc0GABvgnDIbn8c2F5xXX DhmUG0MSRd9rjneUVIzGJ9sRVhY+kupXqQes+I= X-Sasl-enc: UDyxH4UwXKOlTCF6V3gBXRI0uEBt8LuRBXVoDeefufeo 1451736291 Original-Received: from PFDStudio-Air.home (pool-98-118-125-186.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [98.118.125.186]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C3905C016C4; Sat, 2 Jan 2016 07:04:51 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <874mew8y2q.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Sat, 02 Jan 2016 11:22:37 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (darwin) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86499 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Peter Davis writes: > >> Xavier Maillard writes: >> >>> Eric Abrahamsen writes: >>> >>>> Xavier Maillard writes: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Currently I am fetching my incoming mails using a fantastic tool: >>>>> offlineimap. Mails are then deserved by a local imap server (dovecot) on which >>>>> Gnus is connected. So far so good. >>>>> >>>>> As far as I can remeber, I do this from the age of stone principally because, >>>>> nnimap was considered pretty slow and also because I was nomade and it was >>>>> comfortable to do this. >>>>> >>>>> Today, is it considered harmful to fetch my mail in "direct connect" to my >>>>> remote imap server ? >>>> >>>> My understanding is that the nnimap backend was re-written quite >>>> significantly two or three years ago (?). At any rate, the people who >>>> used the first iteration and were horrified now seem mostly happy with >>>> the new version, YMMV. I used to use isync and local dovecot, now use >>>> the direct connection, and it doesn't kill me. It isn't great (I'm in >>>> China), but it doesn't kill me. >>> >>> Understand. SO this is definetely something I should test again and >>> reconsider. >> >> I never got back to this, but I'm curious. I'm running Gnus 5.13. Does that mean I've got the re-written NNIMAP back end? > > It looks like the big re-write happened in Sep 2010, so earlier than I > thought, but there was also a pile of significant improvements in 2012 > or thereabouts. > > I don't actually know what version 5.13 signifies. Wikipedia says it was > bundled with Emacs 23.1 in 2009, but "wrapped up in early 2012 with > version 0.19". Do you have a minor version number, or some other way to > actually date the code? Not that I'm aware of, though I'd be happy to be corrected. I don't even see an nnimap.el or .elc on this machine, though it's certainly working. Thanks, -pd