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Sailesh Krishnamurthy <seesignature@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

> Dear Gnusers
>
> I use Gnus on XEmacs with the following versions
>
>   XEmacs 21.4 (patch 15) 
>   Gnus v5.10.6
>
> I've been using nnimap for the last 3.5 years without any
> problems. Recently I decided that it was time to use the Agent - my
> mail folders have gotten big enough that things are getting very slow
> (particularly deleting and moving mail between folders). 
>
> I read the instructions and I _think_ I've done things correctly ...
>
>     ;;; Make Gnus into an offline newsreader.
>     (setq gnus-agent t)
>     (setq gnus-agent-enable-expiration 'DISABLE)
>     (add-hook 'gnus-select-article-hook 'gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article)
>
> My problem is that I just can't seem to find out how to download my
> entire IMAP folder set into a local cache. I'd love to do that for
> speed and to be able to index and search my mail. 
>
> Is there some magic way in which I can start things and go eat dinner
> while Gnus essentially replicates my entire IMAP email ?

`J s'.

You probably want to look into these settings as well:

 '(gnus-agent-consider-all-articles t)

And also make the default Agent download predicate 'true' instead of
'short'.  `J c' from group buffer, and then 'e' to edit it.