Re: CVS archive status?

["Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)" <YAIRFR@Amdocs.com>]

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

> Since IMAP hasn't a efficient way of getting the highest article
> number in a mailbox, perhaps Gnus should do what other IMAP clients
> do, ie not saying anything about the number of articles (unread nor
> total) in a mailbox before one has entered it for the first time?
> 
> The lengthy 'Checking mailbox foo' are just for fetching that number,
> so a big performance gain would be made...
> 
> Hm. I'll think I'll implement it and see how it works..

Can you please leave an option for getting that number?

If you after programming, can you also make nnimap use the
mail-source-password-cache or a similar mechanism and remove the
annoying question about keeping the password?

Thanks a lot,
--
Yair Friedman.