Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> writes: > 2. Oh that's easy to solve, use maildirs (sync with OfflineIMAP). That > does not work well because Gnus uses its own flags (an example where > Gnus actually breaks standards)! There are some hacks around that > out in the wild, so let's let it slide. > 3. Gnus stores some meta information/cache for maildirs in a .nnmaildir > folder *inside* the maildir directory tree! > maildir > ├── .nnmaildir > ├── cur > ├── new > └── tmp > I do not know how, but this supposed meta information or cache takes > about 2/3 of disk space as the original maildir! Obviously that is a > problem for large mailboxes.
FWIW, I use offlineimap this way, but rather than pointing gnus directly at my local maildir, I use dovecot (a small local IMAP server) as an intermediary. This method is documented here: http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2010/09/08/gnus-dovecot-offlineimap-search-a-howto.html Note the update at the end, since dovecot's command-line interface has changed since the article was first written. I actually use: (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "Mail" (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c ~/.dovecotrc") (nnimap-stream shell))) So far, my emacs (which contains everything I do except Firefox) has remained responsive, and my mailstore still makes sense to K9 when I'm mobile. G
