From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68560 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Plaksin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-secondary-select-methods: what's the point? Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:01:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8763fnbhpp.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243387244 19444 80.91.229.12 (27 May 2009 01:20:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 01:20:44 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16991@lists.math.uh.edu Wed May 27 03:20:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M97ov-0008Bu-55 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 03:20:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M97oQ-0002ZJ-Fa; Tue, 26 May 2009 20:20:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M97X3-0002TF-Kg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 26 May 2009 20:02:13 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M97Wl-0002iS-HP for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 26 May 2009 20:02:13 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1M97XE-0006mp-00 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 03:02:24 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M97Wj-0002cc-PT for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 01:01:53 +0000 Original-Received: from stone.tss.usg.edu ([168.24.82.77]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 01:01:53 +0000 Original-Received: from happy by stone.tss.usg.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 01:01:53 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: stone.tss.usg.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gjnYzPREVqk3tASKph7QelnJUbI= X-Spam-Score: -3.8 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68560 Archived-At: David Engster writes: > In a nutshell, I see the following differences: > > * native method: doesn't have a prefix and will be ignored if you start > through gnus-no-server (only for groups with level >2). > > * secondary methods: do have a prefix, will not be ignored by > gnus-no-server (?). > > * foreign methods: won't be queried for new groups on startup. Server > vanishes if you unsubscribe from all its groups. > > Otherwise, it's more or less a matter of taste. There's a big difference for me with IMAP. If my groups are foreign then checking for new messages is very slow. When they're not foreign I get "nnimap: Quickly checking mailbox BLAH" and it really is much quicker.