From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/20226 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Asymptotically Approaching Relaxation Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Pre-Processed maiil splitting under Gnus? Date: 12 Jan 1999 02:00:35 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199901112351.SAA18522@math.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158555 16659 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:02:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:02:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA22236 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:26:33 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAB06407; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:26:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:26:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA09614 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:26:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from magrathea.cosmic.com (root@chrisp.xensei.com [204.96.52.53]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA22223 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:25:59 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from feoh@localhost) by magrathea.cosmic.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA07064; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:01:50 -0500 Original-To: Richard Coleman X-Reason-For-Owning-A-TV: Babylon 5 In-Reply-To: Richard Coleman's message of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 18:51:57 -0500" Original-Lines: 38 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20226 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20226 Richard Coleman 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 ____________________________________________________________________ |Chris Patti|ICQ#16333120|feoh@cosmic.com|Home #:(617)625-3194|JAPH| |"I have opposable thumbs, and I can buy a rifle. I don't need to | | run from anything." -Todd Finney |