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From: John Sullivan <usenet@wjsullivan.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: imap on maildir
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:30:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zm7uz047.fsf@ashbery.wjsullivan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6t9xqa0.fsf@gmail.com>

Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

> Has anyone here successfully configured courier-imap with exim4 to sit
> on top of an existing maildir directory in order to employ the nnimap
> backend in gnus rather than the maildir one? I read that it should speed
> up gnus startup.
>
> I have a ~/Mail directory which then contains about 15 sub Maildirs
> which are fed from fetchmail and procmail from various mailing lists and
> personal email subscriptions.

Yes, if I understand you right, that's my mail setup. Except that I don't use
fetchmail to get the mail -- I use offlineimap to sync the "real" imap server
to the maildirs on my laptop. courier is running locally on the laptop, and I
point nnimap at it.

-- 
-John Sullivan
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-04 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-02  2:11 Hadron
2007-02-04 10:30 ` John Sullivan [this message]
2007-02-05  8:02   ` Hadron
2007-02-10  6:22     ` John Sullivan
2007-02-10 12:47       ` Hadron
2007-02-12 20:54         ` John Sullivan
2007-02-12 22:02           ` Hadron
2007-02-13  1:01             ` John Sullivan

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