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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | Re: Gnus: caching message headers? |
Date: | Tue, 08 Sep 2020 21:52:08 +0000 |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) |
Is there a way to tell gnus-agent to create only a cache of headers, that is, to not store a local copy of the emails that have been read?Interesting. IMO nowadays MUAs should work by systematically maintaining a full local copy of your mailboxes/folders.
I (respectfully!) disagree. This means that each MUA has to reinvent what already exists on the server, that is, to reinvent its own IMAP-like implementation, to store emails and to locate information in emails. It is also a waste of resources, given that only a very small fraction of the emails are read more than once. A "pure IMAP" MUA only has to query the server through the IMAP protocol, and only manages (1) a list of folders and (2) a list of email summaries in each folder. In fact it could even manage nothing, and query the list of folders each time it is started, and create a summary of the N most recent emails each time a folder is opened.
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