Re: gnus and imap

[Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

> Yes, the changes are small. I was just referring to the sheer number of
> back ends which makes this difficult. Besides, there are back ends which
> are really difficult to grasp, like nnmaildir (at least for me).

I decided to teach Gnus how to handle sequence sets in active info.
There's a lot of work, but it lets all backends to work without any
changes (if they don't want to pass sequence set instead of old single
sequence, of course). Basically, it works (somehow) now, but there are
a lot of bugs.

> Sounds good to me. However, before you do too much work on this, and
> since this is a change in the Gnus internals, maybe someone who is more
> familiar with the code base (Reiner?) can say if this is desirable to
> do.

Well, it must be fixed anyway.I have switched to Zimbra imap server
recently, and Gnus shows me hundreds of thousands of unread articles in
groups, and it works very slowly and consumes tons of memory.

-- 
wbr, Vitaly