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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".