From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78368 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Erik Colson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nnir.el: New `notmuch' backend. Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:08:24 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1301842105-18495-1-git-send-email-kanru@kanru.info> <1301842105-18495-2-git-send-email-kanru@kanru.info> <87tyeeb098.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hbad1pes.fsf@anar.kanru.info> <874o6c7on7.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302070178 12230 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2011 06:09:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 06:09:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26672@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Apr 06 08:09:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Lvq-0002Yw-3r for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:09:34 +0200 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 1Q7Luq-0005iG-Ue; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:08:32 -0500 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 1Q7Luo-0005i5-ON for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:08:30 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Lum-0001tA-LT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:08:30 -0500 Original-Received: from 63.mail-out.ovh.net ([91.121.185.56]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Lul-0006Pe-61 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:08:27 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 26822 invoked by uid 503); 6 Apr 2011 06:57:13 -0000 Original-Received: from b6.ovh.net (HELO mail610.ha.ovh.net) (213.186.33.56) by 63.mail-out.ovh.net with SMTP; 6 Apr 2011 06:57:13 -0000 Original-Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queueout) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 6 Apr 2011 08:08:26 +0200 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (erik.colson@beavernet.be@77.109.118.153) by ns0.ovh.net with SMTP; 6 Apr 2011 08:08:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <874o6c7on7.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:34:36 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 240942580727178155 X-Ovh-Remote: 77.109.118.153 () X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-Spam-Check: DONE|U 0.500004/N X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78368 Archived-At: Hi all, After using gnus with offlineimap to have all mails also local and then running notmuch with the data, I figured some oddities in offlineimap. So I moved to nnimap from gnus and have no local mail storage anymore. This works pretty nice. The only drawback is that some mailboxes are stored with _huge_ mails and it is a pain in the a** to wait while retrieving the mails from the IMAP server. I solved this by putting those mail in the agent with '*'. Care has to be taken while moving such mails to another mailbox as you need to remove such mails from the agent before moving. But that's ok to me (although a var setting to automate this would be welcome and probably not to hard to hack). One remaining issue is searching the mailboxes through the IMAP server. It works, but it is slow due to the slowness of the IMAP server. So my wish would be to have a _local_ index of the distant mail on the IMAP server, without having a local cache of all the mails. Probably it would be preferable to have a separate process running a IMAP client which would read all new mails and index them locally. If anyone knows of such a software, please tell me! Best -- erik