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From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Subject: Re: No Gnus v0.4 from CVS: very slow: nnimap: Updating info for <group>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:15:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur7g2eoqv.fsf@boost-consulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86acmrfaeo.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>

Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> writes:

> Gnus gets mail from a courier IMAP server.  It's now become so slow
> getting mail that it's unusable. (Reading the same server with Mozilla
> Mail or OSX Mail is fast so I don't believe the problem's with the
> server).
>
> When I first start it up, it says something about checking news and
> getting a list of mailboxes from the server.  Then for what appears to
> be every one of the mailboxes (IMAP folders) on the server, it says
> something like:
>
>   nnimap: Updating info for nnimap+NewHrose:INBOX:list.courier-users...done
>
> It seems to take about 5 seconds for each of these, and I have over a
> hundred IMAP folders.  So it takes an unacceptable time to get to read
> my mail -- like 15 minutes just to get to the *Group* buffer.

I have a similar issue here.  The message, for each mailbox, is
something like:

       Mailbox Foo modified

Takes a frustratingly long amount of time.  I tend not to quit Gnus
all day for that reason :(

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com




  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-20  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-19 16:27 Chris Shenton
2005-05-20  0:15 ` David Abrahams [this message]
2005-05-20 14:49   ` Chris Shenton

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