From: Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-secondary-select-methods: what's the point?
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 11:58:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wsd49uo7v8.fsf@mcplaksin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21vqbeyah.fsf@gwdg-mac-engster.top.gwdg.de>
David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
> Mark Plaksin <happy@usg.edu> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> The "quickly checking" means that nnimap checks the STATUS of the
> mailboxes asynchronously, and this is controlled by
> nnimap-retrieve-groups-asynchronous. I only skimmed through
> nnimap-retrieve-groups, but I don't see how this behavior could depend
> on the server being foreign or not.
Interesting. nnimap-retrieve-groups-asynchronous is the default (t) for
me. I'd love to be wrong about foreign IMAP groups being slow :) But
making them non-foreign is the only way I've been able to get "Quickly
checking".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-27 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-26 19:25 David Abrahams
2009-05-26 22:52 ` David Engster
2009-05-27 1:01 ` Mark Plaksin
2009-05-27 8:37 ` David Engster
2009-05-27 15:58 ` Mark Plaksin [this message]
2009-07-08 19:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-05-27 19:57 ` David Abrahams
2009-05-27 19:57 ` David Abrahams
2009-05-27 22:08 ` David Engster
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