Re: Big IMAP folders

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

bh@izb.knu.ac.kr (牛粥) wrote:
> At Gmail i have big imap folders (linux-kernel list, freebsd-stuff
> list). By the way my Gnus cannot fetch mails from the folders. Whenever
> i try, Gnus goes to hang! It is so seriously to me. Unavoidably i launch
> Thunderbird for the folders (linux-kernel list and freebsd-stuff
> list). Is there a solution?

a) Are you sure it is not "long scoring time"?
   http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusSpeed#toc15
b) Have you considered using local imap folders with last few hundredths
   messages from the lists?

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