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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: fast list
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:02:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3mxqcxyti.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zkudpffu.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org>

James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:

> RFC 5819 defines an extension to LIST which returns STATUS replies
> interleaved with the normal LIST replies.  Using that should speed
> gnus startup considerably.
>
> Gnus needs to note the LIST-STATUS capability; when it exists gnus
> should send commands akin to:
>
>    C: A01 LIST "" % RETURN (STATUS (MESSAGES UNSEEN))
>
> specifying what status info it wants for each group.
>
>  RETURN (STATUS (MESSAGES RECENT UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN))
>
> would be OK here.

That doesn't really help Gnus all that much, since Gnus needs to do a
marks resync, and getting the numbers of each of these won't give Gnus
the data it needs.

If they'd implemented LIST RETURN QRESYNC instead, that would have been
awesome.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen




  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-17 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-17  5:15 James Cloos
2010-10-17 22:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2010-10-17 22:58   ` James Cloos
2010-10-18 19:10     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-18 20:49       ` James Cloos
2010-10-18 21:03         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-18 23:17           ` James Cloos
2010-10-18 23:38             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-19 16:00               ` James Cloos
2010-10-19 16:13                 ` Steinar Bang
2010-10-19 18:12                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-19 20:56                   ` James Cloos
2010-10-19 18:12                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-19 21:05                   ` James Cloos
2010-10-20  0:07                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-20 18:47                       ` James Cloos
2010-10-21 15:59                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-21 19:13                           ` James Cloos
2010-10-22 14:51                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-19  5:58           ` Steinar Bang
2010-10-19 18:11             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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