From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38772 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fabien Penso Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: IMAP vs nnml ? (was: Palm and Gnus) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:21:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87d74u4r9g.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <87zo7wsqm8.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174582 24249 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:29:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 26510 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 12:30:13 -0000 Original-Received: from zobe.linuxfr.org (213.193.17.3) by gnus.org with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 12:30:13 -0000 Original-Received: by zobe.linuxfr.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id 45235157F0; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:30:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by houston.linuxfr.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 86D8A167E; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:21:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Organisation: LinuxFr - http://linuxfr.org In-Reply-To: <87zo7wsqm8.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> (Daniel Pittman's message of "Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:19:43 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 Original-Lines: 26 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38772 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38772 >> Will fetchmail pass the mail from POP3 to the IMAP server? > Not directly, no. What it will do is fetch email from a POP3 mailbox and > then feed it to something else that will push it into your IMAP server. > This might be an SMTP-capable MTA on your machine (such as sendmail and > co) or an IMAP-server specific tool (such as the deliver client in > Cyrus.) > It's not that hard to get working and, better than that, it's fully > documented. Mmmm, documented. :) > If you have trouble getting it going, ask around and you should find it > easy to get help. By the way. Would I get better performance if I was using a local IMAP server on my laptop rather than nnml groups ? I have about 16.000 mails in my main mbox, I just wonder how to improve perf... Thanks. -- Fabien Penso http://perso.LinuxFR.org/penso/ GnuPG key: 1024D/22F38AF3