From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14516 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: my vs maildir Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:10:30 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87aajmrkgb.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> <87wrmpnfvm.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294004417 3100 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2011 21:40:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 21:40:17 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 22:40:13 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 1PZVeu-00065q-GS for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:40:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46660 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZVet-00042t-NF for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:40:11 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1294002630 11586 85.183.18.158 (2 Jan 2011 21:10:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 21:10:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:85254 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:14516 Archived-At: Brett Viren writes: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Richard Riley wrote: > >> Why would you do that? The overhead of Dovecot running is pretty >> low. Doing it that way you incur the overhead of startup. With it being >> a server other programs like offlineimap can then talk to it when >> fetching your email and then storing it locally in dovecot for your >> email client to retrieve using imap. > > I've tried it both ways. The only noticeable difference to me is the > lack of needing to provide authentication when imap is called > directly. After start up I don't notice any speed or functionality > difference compared to talking to it over a socket. > > Running a server when it is not actually needed is frowned upon where > I work so there is that, somewhat intangible, benefit for me. > If its company policy then yes I see. But really, the overhead is about zero. When its not needed it sits there consuming pretty much nothing as all such servers/daemons/services should. And of course the benefits are : offlineimap can talk to it with no special start and connect bootstrap other machines can talk to it (if you want) e.g your dev machine on the desk could have the router routing imap to it so you can read your email from anywhere in the word. That said I wasnt even aware of the reconnect and go shell method so its informative all round;)