Re: UW imap c-client

["Joshua R. Poulson" <jrp@informix.com>]

>The main bottleneck in nnimap/gnus right now is imho that it takes a
>long time to check for new mail. No other imap clients I've tested
>does this at all, so perhaps we can make that part optional. (It can
>also be made faster by using a different strategy).

OE4&5 check for mail in all subscribed folders. They do it radically faster
than nnimap does.

>The major bottleneck would then be that it takes a long time to enter
>a folder, this is impossible to fix without heavy modifications of
>Gnus, and for me this isn't a major problem anyway (entering a folder
>with ~1200 articles takes ~25 seconds with 9s spent in nnimap for
>me. I can live with that).

OE4&5 gain speed advantages on this by caching the headers.

>Do you agree with my observations of where the bottlenecks are? Which
>things in nnimap are slow for you?

The slowest/hardest thing for me is finding an old email. ;)

--jrp