Re: Problems with latest imap stuff

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@esys.ca> writes:

> > Well, I'd really like UW-imapd to be usable without having to supply
> > the client a path to the folders, but it isn't. I'm tempted to patch
> > it, but that would have to be done again and again for each new
> > revision.
> 
> Teach nn-imap about NAMESPACE and the problem goes away.

This won't help -- the problem is that Gnus want a list of all the
groups on the server. On a Uwash server at my department, this would
be literally billions and billions of groups.

We can set `gnus-active-file' to nil, but this breaks some other
things like subscribing to mailboxes. I'm thinking about a new *Browse
server* mode for Gnus that would work like a server browse in netscape
(fetching hirarchies when a user clicks on them), this can easily make
use of NAMESPACE.

/s