Re: ahh... it's the problem noted a few months back

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

David S. Goldberg <dsg@mitre.org> writes:

> I don't do server side splitting in nnimap (I use nnimap-split-rules)
> but I do notice that even for nnimap, all groups subscribed at a
> particular level get checked (e.g. I see the "updating info for ..."
> message, even for groups that never get mails split to them).

That's bad.  If you can make it show `checking mailbox foo', then this
will be about an order of magnitude faster than `updating info for
foo'.  Really!  (Well, maybe it's only a factor of five.)

I used to have `updating info for...' as well, but I managed to make
it show `checking mailbox ...' by fiddling with the select method.
And with the level, I think.

M-x gnus RET would show `checking', whereas M-x gnus-no-server RET and
C-u 4 2 M-x gnus RET would show `updating'.  I think.

Simon knows more, for sure.

kai
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