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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: want zombie nnimap groups!
Date: 13 Aug 2000 18:14:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vaf4s4p6suz.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: simon@josefsson.org's message of "13 Aug 2000 00:08:13 +0200"

On 13 Aug 2000, simon@josefsson.org wrote:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
>> If the number of groups is (potentially) extremely large, this is
>> probably not a good idea for nnimap, but is it likely that the
>> number of imap mail groups is extremely large?
> 
> I think so, yes.  UoW's imap server (I'd guess it's the most widely
> deployed server) export home directories.  Issuing a command to list
> all files in even a quite small home directory easily kill
> performance on a server (and the client too, of course).

Well, nnimap does offer the nnimap-list-pattern workaround for this.

kai
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      reply	other threads:[~2000-08-13 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-04-28 16:43 Kai Großjohann
2000-05-03 17:05 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-05-04 15:19   ` Kai Großjohann
2000-08-12 18:22   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-08-12 22:08     ` simon
2000-08-13 16:14       ` Kai Großjohann [this message]

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