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Re: .agentview and .overview
From: |
Cecil Westerhof |
Subject: |
Re: .agentview and .overview |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:54:35 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) |
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>>> The agent is sort of a cache, so that you have to download articles
>>> only once. In general, you always want that for newsgroups. But for
>>> mail groups, it's a different story. When you delete a message
>>> (possibly with another mail client, e.g. the web interface of your
>>> mail provider), the agent doesn't recognize that and you end up with
>>> strange results like duplicate messages and stuff like you mentioned.
>>
>> Okay, that makes everything clear. I would prefer to work with agent
>> then. Because that is faster and also handy when I get offline. But as
>> long as I do not everything with GNUS I'll keep it disabled. On the
>> other hand: why can GNUS not clean it up?
>
> Well, Gnus was initially a newsreader, and there articles don't
> disappear magically. So my suggestion for good performance with mails:
> Install a local IMAP server (e.g. Dovecot) that you access with Gnus,
> and synch that with your remote accounts using OfflineIMAP. I do that
> for years, and it works just perfectly.
I already work with a local IMAPS server, but when travelling that will
offcourse not be the case.
Bye the way a bigger problem is expire. Sometimes I have to wait half a
minute to a minute going to another folder. Maybe it would be better to
do the expiring not always? Say at most once a day.
--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof