From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14532 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: my vs maildir Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:38:17 -0500 Message-ID: <87k4ilydzq.fsf@uwo.ca> References: <87aajmrkgb.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> <87wrmpnfvm.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> <87vd26d7cs.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> <87vd26djmc.fsf@a64.davidb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294083527 27682 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2011 19:38:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 19:38:47 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 20:38:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZqEo-0002pj-H1 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:38:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43362 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZqEn-0005ML-TY for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:38:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54825 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZqEk-0005LC-Bt for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:38:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZqEj-0003vF-3q for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:38:34 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57415) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZqEi-0003uq-UY for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:38:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZqEg-0002lE-1s for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:38:30 +0100 Original-Received: from bas3-london14-1096787449.dsl.bell.ca ([65.95.165.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:38:30 +0100 Original-Received: from jdc by bas3-london14-1096787449.dsl.bell.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:38:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bas3-london14-1096787449.dsl.bell.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/BcsGjumzP2+BUK6sfL73n+XE8c= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14532 Archived-At: I invoke imap directly using dovecot --exec-mail imap and it reads the config file. I do it like this because it appears to be faster than using a socket, possibly in part because it avoids authentication and encryption. I even find it faster when I connect to a remote server (using the above with ssh). Dan