Re: Gcc to IMAP is slow

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no> writes:

> In order to preserve threads as much as possible, I Gcc my own messages
> both into the folder I am in, and to the Sent-folder (via
> gnus-outgoing-message-group)). But this is now much slower than before
> the IMAP rewrite. My emacs can get unresponsive for many seconds after I
> have sent a message. The imap log shows that gnus is doing a IMAP SEARCH
> for a Message-Id, which I guess can be slow on large folders:
>
> 09:45:15 920 SELECT "INBOX"
> 09:45:15 921 UID FETCH 1:* FLAGS

This seems unnecessary and probably very slow.  Fixed now.

> 09:45:16 922 APPEND "INBOX" {786}
> 09:45:16 923 UID SEARCH HEADER Message-Id "<1ssjzuk96c.fsf@voll.uninett.no>"

However, this is necessary to mark messages as read if you have
`gnus-gcc-mark-as-read'.  If not, it's probably not very useful, but it
isn't slow on the servers I've tried it on...

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