Re: Lots of open() calls with nnmaildir

Re: Lots of open() calls with nnmaildir

[Martin Geisler]

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Martin Geisler <mg@daimi.au.dk> writes:
>
>> [...] could I then somehow tell Gnus not to read this information
>> for groups that I don't use regularly, such as sent mail?
>
> Try putting your rarely used groups on a high level (higher than
> gnus-activate-level).

Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't help: Setting the level to 6
(which is gnus-activate-level) doesn't make any difference: the groups
are still scanned on startup.

Setting the level to 9 kills the groups, but they are resurrected when
I start Gnus a second time.

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Re: Lots of open() calls with nnmaildir

[Martin Geisler]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Martin Geisler <mg@daimi.au.dk> wrote:
>> Perhaps I should put those groups in another maildir server, but I
>> find that solution a bit silly.  Perhaps I should just live with
>> this initial delay in starting Gnus...
>
> Unfortuantely, those are about the only options for now.  I have
> some ideas about how to speed it up, but I'm not sure when I'll have
> time to work on it.

Yes, I know the problem about having enough time... :-)

But still: thanks for taking the time to write the nnmaildir backend
in the first place!

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Re: Lots of open() calls with nnmaildir

[Stefan Reichör]

Martin Geisler <mg@daimi.au.dk> writes:

> Cristian Gutierrez <crgutier@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> 
> > Silly, but improves the overall situation: I "outsourced" maildir
> > access to courier-imap. Yes, running on the same machine. Gnus now
> > accesses my folders via nnimap, and it ain't that bad after all;
> > startup is fast, checking for new mail is fast.. only deleting one
> > (or more) message in a (say) 8000-messages folder takes a little
> > while (15-20 secs); in smaller folders it's unnoticeable. Moving
> > between folders is always fast.
> 
> Thanks for the tip! In a private email Arne Jørgensen already
> suggested the same setup: deliver read mail into a maildir, put an
> IMAP server ontop of the maildir, let Gnus read mail using nnimap
> instead of nnmaildir.
> 
> And I've now got that setup, and it works perfectly!  Using Dovecot
> (from http://dovecot.org/) reading mails is lightning fast again.  And
> because I now have an IMAP server running, I can connect to it from
> anywhere and still read my mail --- my ticked articles even show up as
> such when I use another Gnus instance to read my mail.
> 
> Eventually I want to put a webmail interface ontop of the IMAP server,
> so that I allways have access to my mail, even I'm away from a decent
> computer with Gnus installed.

That sounds interesting and a bit complicated to setup.
Now I use a nnml backend, I have never used IMAP before.

Could you explain the necessary steps in detail?
It would be nice, if you could send me your devecot configuration
file.

Thanks for your help,
  Stefan.

Re: Lots of open() calls with nnmaildir

[Arne Jørgensen]

Jacob Bunk Nielsen <spam@bunk.cc> writes:

> Martin Geisler <mg@daimi.au.dk> writes:
>
>> Eventually I want to put a webmail interface ontop of the IMAP server,
>> so that I allways have access to my mail, even I'm away from a decent
>> computer with Gnus installed.
>
> I use SSH in such situations. If you already have a computer online
> (for running the IMAP server), why not just connect to that using SSH
> and fire up gnus on that? I do it all the time when I'm away from
> home.

A webmail interface can be convenient if you only have two minutes
left to check your email and the only computer around is someones
win-pc without putty.

An IMAP server can be nice if you have a mobile phone which is able to
speak IMAP (no, I don't have one unfortunately) -- unless of course
someone has made an ssh client for a mobile phone ;-)

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