Tassilo Horn <[email protected]> writes: > Dan Christensen <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
