Re: nnimap questions

[Michael Hirsch <hirsch@mathcs.emory.edu>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> hirsch@mathcs.emory.edu writes:
> 
> > Thanks for the quick fix.  It now compiles wo complaint, but when I
> > go to the server buffer, put the point on my imap server, and hit U
> > emacs freezes.  I left it on overnight and it is totally blank.
> > It's not even refreshing.
> 
> Lots of mailboxes then, I assume. :-)

Around 4-500, I think.  I've been collecting them.  When I eliminate
the directory, and only list the two I read all the time, there is no
problem (though it still seems slow.
 
> You can use `nnimap-list-pattern' to reduce the number of mailboxes to
> list, but you'd need another imap client to find out which mailboxes
> you aren't interested in.

My problem is that I have lots of output folders, but few incoming
folders.  It seems that nnimap wont let me copy to a folder without
subscribing to it--or at least somehow informing it that it exists in
the server buffer.  One client I have, ML, lets my fype in a folder
name and it just moves it to that folder without any fuss, so I know
it is possible.  nnimap barfs if I try to copy to a folder it has
never heard of which already exists.
 
> I really should finish my new subscription buffer which would solve
> this, the current server buffer loop over all mailboxes and EXAMINE
> them, and that's likely to take a very long time to finish even on a
> small (UWash-) server.

That sounds nice.

-- 
Michael