From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86490 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Davis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap backend performances ? Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 19:09:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874mgh1amt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451693443 1120 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2016 00:10:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 00:10:43 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34714@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jan 02 01:10:29 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 1aF9m8-0001VN-Kf for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 01:10:28 +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 1aF9lM-0008KR-Qc; Fri, 01 Jan 2016 18:09:40 -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 1aF9lL-0008K8-0U for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Jan 2016 18:09:39 -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 1aF9lJ-0006uL-7O for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Jan 2016 18:09:38 -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 1aF9l0-0001DS-GC for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 01:09:24 +0100 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E4C20161 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2016 19:09:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 01 Jan 2016 19:09:17 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=/rU08QzSDXQg/0c696jjYHygXck=; b=lX3aT qun9H0IrtWnZ1cyNTbBfHJuxtnEJ+m/01IKx9dAaALjj2PQU43F/zAuirUvquoZe 4ZzVPWVzUovvY2MoKscsq75q4X5ZQuRFaEptFfx2l8ndiS4zGw2lu2TMzbDyTS6u sEGda+FOzsJzDSjDHUtexkaOuPDkUT+YHP4IE0= X-Sasl-enc: Xp1MZQEJWQ5i5089g90o450+JWaerLbxY10zPjU8mWsq 1451693356 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 AE9C2C016F0; Fri, 1 Jan 2016 19:09:16 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Xavier Maillard's message of "Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:20:37 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (darwin) X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86490 Archived-At: 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? Thanks! -pd