Re: nnimap: Server buffer vs secondary-select-methods

[Mark Plaksin <happy@usg.edu>]

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org> writes:
>

...

>> I have always struggled to understand the difference between using the
>> Server buffer and using gnus-secondary-select-methods.  Today I made Gnus a
>> zillion times (no exaggeration :) faster by finally putting my IMAP servers
>> into gnus-secondary-select-methods.
>
> Hmm, my imap server is my primary select method, and my Gnus could
> stand to get a zillion times faster.  Do I have to make it a secondary
> select method also?

I don't know about that.  After making my change, this is all that appears
in *Messages* when I check mail (assuming the IMAP servers are already open):

  Checking new news...
  Opening nnimap server on 1pof...done
  nnimap: Checking mailboxes...done
  Opening nnimap server on bor...done
  nnimap: Checking mailboxes...done
  Checking new news...done

Before I had a line (or three) for every single folder.

The key seems to have been getting (and keeping) the short name for my IMAP
server into what I see with G E in the Group buffer.  In the example G E
output below, it just has "bor" as the server name instead of
"nnimap+bor...".  I wasn't able to get that to stick until my IMAP servers
were secondary select methods.  I never tried making one of them the
primary select method.

G E output:
("nnimap+bor:Mail/bugzilla" 3
 "bor"
 ((uidvalidity . "1100103011")
  (timestamp 16899 59047)
  (total-expire . t)))