[email protected] writes: >> To answer your last question first: If only one Emacs machine will ever >> be the client in this setup, and you are not using an external utility >> like offlineimap or fetchmail directly on the mailbox, you could get >> away with using nnml over TRAMP. The advantage of nnmaildir is that, >> unlike MH-style mailboxes like nnml, the maildir layout is designed to >> be suitable for non-locking use, i.e. reading mail even as another >> program is putting stuff into the inbox. Therefore it's an excellent >> choice for a mailbox hosted on a central server for multiple clients to >> use. > > OK, since it is indeed the case that only one emacs at a time will be > client, I will stick with nnml. At least this has the advantage that > I can simply copy the old mail archive then. > > I guess that one drawback of the whole setup will be that > regexp-searching mail articles will become much slower, right? After > all, emacs will have to fetch each message / file separately via ssh, > check whether it matches... Well, I'll see...
Yeah, for searches within the message body, anyway. Header searches like / a should be close to the same speed, because Gnus loads up the news overview file for the mailbox when you enter the group. > > Many thanks for your help! > > Martin -- Regards, WGG _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
