Re: Where do you want to go tomorrow?

[Matt Armstrong <mattdav+matt@best.com>]

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

> Apart from getting the code under FSF-copyrights (hence more likely to
> be included in the regular Gnus distribution), what are the goals
> you'd like to see in nnimap?
> 
> Some obvious things:
> 
> * Fixing bugs
> * Faster look for new mail (asynchronous?)
> * Cooperation with Gnus Agent, ie disconnected mode
> * Improving Gnus with regard to the IMAPish way of thinking
>   (hierarchal folder listings, imap-subscribe/unsubscribe etc)
> * MIME (don't fetch entire article etc)
> * More splitting (fancy splitting, server-side splitting etc)

I'd like to see asynchronous article fetching just like the nntp
backend.  For high volume mailing lists, this is often the only way to
effectively scan through lots threads.  I'm currently finding it
pretty painful to read linux-kernel over nnimap.

Might be something I'd work on, though I'm an idiot when it comes to
elisp.

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matta