From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50018 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap usage model Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:55:17 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044983037 20553 80.91.224.249 (11 Feb 2003 17:03:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:03:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18idnu-0005Co-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:02:42 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18idpW-0005I8-00; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:04:22 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:05:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02350 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:05:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18idlg-00051D-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:00:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ided-0004TR-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:53:07 +0100 Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ICJL976T4LiWu4Y4yNlukdQNiTQ= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50018 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50018 Niklas Morberg writes: > David Abrahams 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 www.boost-consulting.com