Re: startup

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

Amos Gouaux <amos+lists.nnimap@utdallas.edu> writes:

> This is confusing me.

FWIW I'm seeing the same behaviour and is confused by it too.

I haven't groked how or why the activity level work the way they do,
or if what we see is a feature or a bug.

I intend to edebug through all of it sometime to figure out whats
really happening soon.

> Also, on a similar note, if I'm stuck on a slow connection, start up 
> is painfully slow when it hits the part 'Listing subscribed
> mailboxes on ....'  Is there some way this could be minimized?
> Seems like it is doing the equivalent of `A A', but at each start
> up. 

Hm. Do you have lots of subscribed mailboxes?

Nnimap request a list of LSUB'ed mailboxes, and for each of them it
open the mailbox to find out high/low article number. Thoose numbers
aren't really needed by Gnus, but there is no way to tell Gnus about
the groups without collecting that information....

All this so you can find new, subscribed, groups with `F'. That's not
a major functionality so I can introduce a variable so it can be
disabled if you like.

Improving the backend<->gnus interface (not requiring high/low article
numbers, for instance) is something I'd like to work on, but I think
it's a good idea to have the current nnimap as usable as possible
before introducing new bugs.