From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60340 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: No Gnus v0.4 from CVS: very slow: nnimap: Updating info for Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:15:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86acmrfaeo.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116548546 9835 80.91.229.2 (20 May 2005 00:22:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 00:22:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8867@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 20 02:22:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYvGu-0001qj-JL for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 20 May 2005 02:21:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DYvCq-0002aB-00; Thu, 19 May 2005 19:17:36 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DYvCl-0002a6-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 19 May 2005 19:17:31 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DYvCh-00065P-4X for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 19 May 2005 19:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DYvCf-0005qu-00 for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 02:17:25 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DYvAX-0001Bx-Tk for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 20 May 2005 02:15:13 +0200 Original-Received: from 146-115-127-135.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([146.115.127.135]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 02:15:13 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 146-115-127-135.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 02:15:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 146-115-127-135.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EcVQ8RNYy96swhgqQCzw05ui38g= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60340 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60340 Chris Shenton 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