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Re: Agent and mail groups
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Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: Agent and mail groups |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:05:40 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
jesse@phiwumbda.org (Jesse F. Hughes) writes:
> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> (I do use agent with IMAP, but I rarely delete anything on the server,
>> so I wouldn't typically discover this problem.)
>
> So your IMAP groups just grow and grow?
Yup.
> How big do they get?
I have one mailbox for each month, for personal mail, so they don't
get very large. I'm using gmane.org for many mailing lists nowadays,
but before I used to have 10k messages in many groups, with around 50k
in the Ding list. My various spam/junk folders are largish though,
perhaps above 100k messages or so.
> Doesn't it take a while to enter a group?
Reading newly arrived messages is fast, which is almost the only thing
I do. To C-u RET a group is not that expensive up until ~15k articles,
or so.
> I've been thinking of setting very large expiry times for a couple of
> groups -- six months to a year, just so if I overlook something
> important, it will still be there. Is this reasonable? Any tips on
> efficiency?
Make sure the nnimap servers are agentized, and cache everything. My
custom block says:
'(gnus-agent-consider-all-articles t)
'(gnus-agent-enable-expiration (quote DISABLE))
'(gnus-select-article-hook (quote (gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article ...
This will make Gnus cache NOV headers and all articles. The server
traffic, when you enter a group, is getting headers for the new
messages, and synching flags. And once read, articles are cached
locally forever.