Re: Lots of open() calls with nnmaildir

[Stefan Reichör]

Martin Geisler <mg@daimi.au.dk> writes:

> Cristian Gutierrez <crgutier@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> 
> > Silly, but improves the overall situation: I "outsourced" maildir
> > access to courier-imap. Yes, running on the same machine. Gnus now
> > accesses my folders via nnimap, and it ain't that bad after all;
> > startup is fast, checking for new mail is fast.. only deleting one
> > (or more) message in a (say) 8000-messages folder takes a little
> > while (15-20 secs); in smaller folders it's unnoticeable. Moving
> > between folders is always fast.
> 
> Thanks for the tip! In a private email Arne Jørgensen already
> suggested the same setup: deliver read mail into a maildir, put an
> IMAP server ontop of the maildir, let Gnus read mail using nnimap
> instead of nnmaildir.
> 
> And I've now got that setup, and it works perfectly!  Using Dovecot
> (from http://dovecot.org/) reading mails is lightning fast again.  And
> because I now have an IMAP server running, I can connect to it from
> anywhere and still read my mail --- my ticked articles even show up as
> such when I use another Gnus instance to read my mail.
> 
> Eventually I want to put a webmail interface ontop of the IMAP server,
> so that I allways have access to my mail, even I'm away from a decent
> computer with Gnus installed.

That sounds interesting and a bit complicated to setup.
Now I use a nnml backend, I have never used IMAP before.

Could you explain the necessary steps in detail?
It would be nice, if you could send me your devecot configuration
file.

Thanks for your help,
  Stefan.