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Re: nnimap vs. nnmaildir
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Richard Riley |
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Re: nnimap vs. nnmaildir |
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Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:12:52 +0200 |
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Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
>> [nnimap or nnmaildir for synching imap]
>
> I use a local dovecot imap server that synchronizes several imap
> accounts using offlineimap. From Gnus, I access it via nnimap. This
> works very reliable for more than a year now.
>
> Before, I used offlineimap to populate maildirs and accessed those with
> the nnmaildir backend. But that was very slow for big groups.
>
> The switch to a local dovecot imap server was quite easy. To configure
> dovecot for my needs, there's no magic involved. I can send you my
> configs to get you started.
>
>> Criteria that are important to me:
>>
>> - robustness
>
> Absolutely.
>
>> - speed (generating the summary buffer, selecting articles, moving
>> articles between groups)
>
> Very fast, much faster than nnmaildir, at least for groups with a lot of
> articles.
>
>> - ability to edit articles
>
> Dunno 'bout that one...
>
>> - search
>
> Dovecot has several full text search plugins that speed up imap SEARCH
> commands. For interfacing with it, I use nnir. Setup is a one-liner
> for each account.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
>
>
Dovecot works great via nnimap.
I use mairix to keep a index on my mail server refreshed by a cron
job. The client mairix command is then simply "ssh servername mairix" to
populate my local gnus.
Over a year running like this and works brilliantly. The documentation for
mairix can confuse a little but do try it.
- nnimap vs. nnmaildir, Dan Christensen, 2009/07/15
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- Re: nnimap vs. nnmaildir,
Richard Riley <=