Re: Gnus header re-scan

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

ross@rosslaird.info (Ross A. Laird) writes:

Hi Ross,

> Often I need to go into an archive directory to find old email or
> addresses. In mutt, once the headers are downloaded, subsequent
> rescans of the archive are very fast (the archive has about 15,000
> messages in it). But gnus seems to want to re-download all the headers
> again (with C-u space, for example), and this can take as long as 10
> or 20 minutes.  Can I get gnus to work like mutt in this regard, by
> looking at the local copies instead?

Is the IMAP server agentized?  To check that, hit `^' in *Group* to
enter the server buffer.  If there's no "(agent)" string behind the IMAP
server hit `J a' on this line.  The next time you download articles they
should be cached on the file system.

Another solution that might be even faster for large amounts of mail may
be a local imap proxy (i.e. OfflineIMAP [1]).

Bye,
Tassilo
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[1] http://software.complete.org/offlineimap