Tassilo Horn wrote: >Nick Dokos writes: >Hi Nick, >> [Warning: I know very little about gnus, perhaps just enough >> to be dangerous and you probably already know all this, but just >> in case... The bit that caught my attention is the slowness of >> the uid search command on some versions of Courier, which seems... >> related.] >Yeah, just a minute ago when replying to David I also stumbled across >that paragraph. So maybe we are trying to replace one extremely long >running command which only occurs when following links (or searching for >Message-Ids) with a constant slowness in normal operation. But let's >try it out. Finally I got a novcache: ,----[ gnus.el ] | ;;; Experimental Gnus setup | | (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org")) | (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods | '((nnimap "localhost" | (nnimap-address "localhost") | (nnimap-server-port 993) | (nnimap-stream ssl)))) | | (setq nnimap-nov-is-evil nil) | (setq gnus-cache-enter-articles '(ticked dormant unread read)) | | (setq org-gnus-nnimap-query-article-no-from-file t) `---- Now the strange thing is that the novcache file in ~/News/overview is 100% identical to .overview in ~/News/agent ,---- | dmaus@t41 ~/News % md5sum overview/nnimap/localhost/INBOX/1280089306/novcache agent/nnimap/localhost/INBOX/.overview | b4a78e25a064f0c260f76080a00991cd overview/nnimap/localhost/INBOX/1280089306/novcache | b4a78e25a064f0c260f76080a00991cd agent/nnimap/localhost/INBOX/.overview | dmaus@t41 ~/News % `---- Anyway: `nnimap-retrieve-headers-from-file' does not work as expected. First, it requires the group parameter without backend and server prefix (e.g. "INBOX" instead of "nnimap+localhost:INBOX". Second it would return a cons (min-UID . max-UID). That wouldn't help us, would it? Third and amazingly my novcache seems to be corrupt right after creation: `nnimap-retrieve-headers-from-file' does not get the maximum UID but reads "INBOX" (?!) -- A string that looks kind of a header information for nov -- and not "18753" what is the highest UID in the mailbox. Last line of the cache: (it's a local copy of wanderlust general newsgroup accessed via IMAP) ,---- | 18753 Re: checking imap folder unplugged Yoichi NAKAYAMA Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:19:13 +0900 <87ptvqcd9p.wl@eken.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp> 4424 13 Xref: t41.ictsoc.de INBOX:18753 Newsgroups: gmane.mail.wanderlust.general.japanese `---- Best, -- David -- OpenPGP... 0x99ADB83B5A4478E6 Jabber.... dmjena@jabber.org Email..... dmaus@ictsoc.de