From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9500 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap.el is available for way-alpha testing. Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:49:10 +0100 Sender: sb@norne.metis.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.93) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149516 18864 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id FAA07577 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 05:14:34 -0800 Original-Received: from gw.metis.no (abel.metis.no [193.90.64.1]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:49:44 +0100 Original-Received: by gw.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA02100; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:49:12 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by mailhub.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA18454; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:49:11 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by norne.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA17922; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:49:11 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of 21 Jan 1997 12:12:45 +0100 Original-Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.80/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9500 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9500 >>>>> Steinar Bang : >>>>> visigoth@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu: > [snip!] >> * I'm gonna be asking Lars for some new optional backend calls that should >> make this implementation a lot more optimal. (Hi Lars!) At the >> moment, it's handicapped greatly by being pushed into the NNTP >> framework. This is not helped by the fact that IMAP isn't optimal >> for large numbers of folders. > Hmm... what does "not optimal" entail...? And also: what is "large" in this context? 50 folders? 100 folders? 1000 folders? - Steinar