Re: fast list

[James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> What, exactly, does gnus need for each group?

LMI> To update the group infos, Gnus needs all the article data, really.
LMI> If you have no UNSEEN, but 3 \Flagged articles, Gnus displays that (by
LMI> default) as "*    0: group.name", and that info isn't available just by

OK.

I restart gnus again last night, with strace attached.  It sent:

  LIST                           # *fast*, now
  EXAMINE for each group         # took ~20 min
  # worked internally for ~20 min
  LIST                           # again?
  EXAMINE/UID FETCH FLAGS tuple  # another ~20 min

>> LIST "" "%" RETURN (STATUS (MESSAGES RECENT UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN))

It seems like an extended LIST which returns STATUS and FLAGS would do
the same as the UID FETCH FLAGS for every group, yes?

At the very least LIST-STATUS should avoid the need to EXAMINE each
group twice, yes?

If I get an i-d written up to support a FLAGS return type for LIST,
would you be willing to add support for that to nnimap?

-JimC
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