Re: spam*.el and ifile-gnus.el?

[jhbrown@ai.mit.edu (Jeremy H. Brown)]

Andreas Fuchs <asf@void.at> writes:
> Hm, I tried to do something similar (just rename the advised functions
> in ifile-gnus.el) for imap at work, but that didn't work out as I
> expected. It seems like not the entire article is known to nnimap when
> it gets split, so ifile fails; I didn't investigate this further,
> though.

Now that I think about this, this is probably a major problem with
using ifile and imap together: one of the main points using imap is
not downloading the entire message before you really want it.  I'll
bet gnus only downloads the headers for splitting.  To use client-side
ifile, gnus will have to download entire messages (or at least all the
text parts), which will probably have significant performance impact
when you're on a slow connection.  When I surface for air in a week or
two, I'll maybe look into implementing this as an option, and see how
much people grouse about performance impact.

Jeremy

PS For IMAP, server-side ifile-splitting would really be the right
   thing.  That is beyond the scope of my current mail-hacking
   ambitions.