Re: nnimap usage model

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com> writes:

> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
>> basically he keeps a local copy of all of his messages for
>> fast searching, and so that he can easily work
>> "unplugged".
>
> I'm after this functionality myself and use the agent like
> so:
>
>  '(gnus-agent t)
>  '(gnus-agent-consider-all-articles t)
>  '(gnus-agent-expire-days 36500)
>  '(gnus-agent-mark-unread-after-downloaded nil)
>
> There are a couple of problems with this approach: e.g. I
> have to run gnus-agent-regenerate a couple of times each day
> since something gets out of whack, and the summary buffer
> gets terribly confused at times and displays messages that
> are just not there.
>
> I haven't had the time to look more closely at when these
> problems occur, so I can't be more specific. I'm a lot less
> happy with gnus since I started using the agent, though :(

This is so sad :(.  It doesn't sound like your arrangement is worth
the likely frustration.

I can't imagine GNUs ever being as smooth as Mulberry is, and I can't
imagine enjoying the UI design of Mulberry the way I do GNUs.  If only
I could just use emacs as a back-end for the Mulberry core!

Ah, well, I guess I can dream...

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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