Re: Question mail package

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <oitofelix@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Bob,
>
> Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:
>
>> If you want the absolute ultimate, it's Gnus.
>
> I’m also a Gnus users.  Two things to keep in mind though:
>
>   1. Gnus becomes quite slow when handling dozens of thousands of
>      messages;
>
>   2. It blocks Emacs entirely while processing them.
>
>
> I hope something could be done about it[1].  Perhaps if Gnus get
> rewritten to take advantage of the new Lisp threads functionality.  Does
> someone know if that is doable?

What server type are you using? IMAP? maildir?