From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14469 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: my vs maildir Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:50:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87lj36e37j.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <87aajmrkgb.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293785435 28430 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2010 08:50:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:50:35 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 31 09:50:30 2010 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 1PYagw-0008Bs-DH for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:50:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33664 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PYagv-00005R-Ql for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:50:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43329 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PYagp-00005M-DH for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:50:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PYago-0000R8-4o for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:50:23 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PYagn-0000R1-US for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:50:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PYagm-00088A-6z for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:50:20 +0100 Original-Received: from 95-88-32-105-dynip.superkabel.de ([95.88.32.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:50:20 +0100 Original-Received: from tassilo by 95-88-32-105-dynip.superkabel.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:50:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 95-88-32-105-dynip.superkabel.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:V71FSIkbVBaisTSBYhIjw/0WMvA= 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:14469 Archived-At: prad writes: > our imap server stores mail in maildir. So you get them from IMAP. Why not simply access them with nnimap then? IMAP has very good search facilities (Gnus nnir' search exploits them), so I don't see a good reason to index them locally again (unless the remote imap server doesn't do a good job here). If you need to access your mails when you are offline, then you might consider mirroring the remote imap server on a local imap server using offlineimap, just like Richard suggested. I did that for years, it worked fine, but I've switched back to plain nnimap. It's very fast since Lars rewrote it some weeks ago, and basically, I'm always online. And if I really go on a offline train trip, I tick the mails I need before in Gnus. Then they are accessible also when offline. Bye, Tassilo