Tassilo Horn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andrzej Adam Filip <[email protected]> writes:
>>>> b) Have you considered using local imap folders with last few
>>>> hundredths messages from the lists?
>>>
>>> A local IMAP server (and synchronizing with offlineimap) is very
>>> nice. But why only store the last few hundreds? My emacs-devel
>>> group has about 25.000 messages, its size is about 232 MB, and Gnus
>>> handles it fine. :-)
>>
>> How often do search *ALL* messages in the folder? :-)
>
> Very frequently. My local imap server (Dovecot) does full text indexing
> on the fly, so searches are very fast. Of course, if the imap server
> would search by grepping, large groups would be bad in that respect.
Whenever I open 1_000+ messages IMAP folder ("server-less" dovecot) gnus
does full scoring and it takes a few seconds.
After reading your "testimony" I tend to believe it may be
"under optimalisation" of my configuration.
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