From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1712 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: GNUS, IMAP, and slowness (that should be easy fixable?) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:33:23 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: <84u1gv79gs.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668402 12427 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:46:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:46:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:35 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!Norway.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p50877cb3.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50877cb3.dip.t-dialin.net (80.135.124.179) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1041266011 8792158 80.135.124.179 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lZCNsYTuXnaKnCKQUkDlC23fhbw= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1852 Original-Lines: 25 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1852 Tue Jan 17 17:29:35 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1712 Archived-At: klarlund@research.att.com (Nils Klarlund) writes: > I have used GNUS as a mail reader for a couple of years, since it > allows me to work within Emacs, where I try to "live". (I can work > almost hands-free within Emacs.) As such, I am very happy with it. Please try Gnus. GNUS is really really outdated. Emacs 21 comes with Gnus 5.9 and XEmacs has Gnus 5.8.8... > There is one bothersome problem, which I have not been able to fix. I > do not believe that it is related to earlier postings in this group > about IMAP support being slow. > > I would like to use GNUS in the way that standard mail readers work. > In particular, they show all mail in the group (= mail folder), > whether read or unread, and an operation check-mail updates the group > in unit time, adding new mail (i.e. in time that is not proportional > to the number of mail in the group, but a constant). If you install Oort Gnus from www.gnus.org, then you get the command `/ N' which might do what you want. (It still takes O(n) time, where n is the number of new messages. But presumably, you didn't mean that O(1) that literally...) -- Ambibibentists unite!