Re: Pre-Processed maiil splitting under Gnus?

[Asymptotically Approaching Relaxation <feoh@cosmic.com>]

Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu> writes:

> > I love Gnus.  However I'm running it on a Cyrix 686 150 with 64 Megs na
> > RAM and even so watching Gnus split and filter my incoming mail is
> > _so_mind_blisteringly_slow_ that I simply can't cope anymore :)
> > 
> > (Note: I'm NOT slamming Gnus here.  It's elisp, and given the number of
> >  sexpr's it has to eval per message filtered I think it does a *fine*
> >  job.  It's just that every time I go to read my mail, it gets more and
> >  more painful every day to spend 5+ minutes watching Gnus go *chuggachugga*)
> > 
> > So.. Is there a away, maybe with XEmacs in batch mode or whatever, to have
> > some sort of daemonized Gnus process pre-filter my mail so that when I log
> > in it'll be all split as it should be?
> > 
> > I looked at using procmail, but the procmail/nnfolder solution seems complex
> > and I want to make sure I'm not missing something before I go convert my
> > 1.5 pages of nnmail-split-methods into procmail syntax.
> 
> I don't think the procmail solution is very complicated.  Don't use
> procmail to save directly to a nnfolder file.  Instead, have it save
> your messages into multiple (pre-filtered) spool files, which Gnus will
> incorporate directly into the correct group.  There is an entry in the
> Gnus FAQ that shows exactly how to set this up.  It's pretty easy (from
> the perspective of Gnus).  That is assuming you know how to use
> procmail (which is not that hard).

Well, yes that's a good point, and thanks for making it, but my issue
was that I'm trying to *AVOID* the procmail route.

As ratinox pointed out, the splitting process on my system is *WAY TOO 
SLOW* maybe there's something I'm doing somewhere, I dunno..

-Chris
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