Brian Nelson wrote: [...]
>>> Furthermore, I ran into problems with offline synchronization. >> >> if you are using imap, there is zero syncrhonization problems, >> as your email and folders are only on the imap server > > Hmm? I don't use OfflineIMAP for shits and giggles, ya know. [...] I think I've been where you are right now. I wanted Gnus flexibility but because nnmbox was a royal PITA, and nnmaildir didn't make it a lot better, I envied mutt's usual performance. So I decided to `outsource' maildir access to a dedicated compiled-chunk-of-C-code daemon: I have courier serving IMAP to Gnus, and offlineimap syncing the mail server with the *maildir folders*, not the local server. Now Gnus (via nnimap) scans, enters and exits folders blazingly fast (unlike nnmaildir), doesn't fill up my half-gigabyte memory (as nnmbox did), and doesn't interfere with offlineimap; instead, courier does. Well, does not :-) Being a maildir directory, those two coexist nicely. Moving messages between folders can't be faster than it is now (unlike with nnmbox), but there is a shortcoming deleting messages; somehow it takes courier a few seconds (20 or so) to delete any number of messages from a nnimap folder. `top' shows courier being busy during that while, so may be there's some courier config's tweaking in order. Gnus just wait, and if something goes wrong, I can convince it to stop waiting with C-g (unlike before, when it seemed to be doing all the hard work with its "utterly efficient" elisp file handling routines, and listening to noone meanwhile ;-) Well, I hope you save me the kicking. My gonads need some rest. -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies." -- Bill Bulko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
