Re: How to prevent gnus from always downloading full index

[Andreas Hilboll]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> Andreas writes:
>
>> Adam Sjøgren <asjo <at> koldfront.dk> writes:
>>
>>> Ah! This looks suspicious:
>>> 
>>>   gnus-fetch-old-headers t
>>> 
>>> From the documentation:
>>> 
>>>  "This feature can seriously impact performance it ignores all locally
>>>   cached header entries. Setting it to t for groups for a server that
>>>   doesn't expire articles (such as news.gmane.org), leads to very slow
>>>   summary generation."
>>> 
>>> I have nil here. I'm pretty sure this is the culprit.
>>
>> Indeed, you're right.  Thanks for your help, Adam!
>
> Great! You're welcome.
>
> It might be worth to feed this information back to the spaceemacs(?)
> folks?

I'll start the discussion there.  The thing is, in Spacemacs, the Gnus
configuration seems to be geared towards e-mail / IMAP usage.  But at
least I'll document this behaviour on the Spacemacs side.