On Wed 04-Dec-2019 at 16:42:51 +01, "Fraga, Eric" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, 4 Dec 2019 at 15:46, Garjola Dindi wrote: >> One thing that bothers me is the fact that Gnus blocks my emacs when >> fetching news, e-mails and RSS feeds (altough I use feed2imap for most >> of my feeds). >> >> I understand that some emacs users use 2 different emacs instances, one > [..] > > My solution now is to use group levels more smartly. By default, "g" in > the Group buffer only retrieves emails from my main server and that is > quick. If/when I know I have time, I retrieve from all servers by C-u 5 > g (say) or by M-g on individual lines in the Group buffer. > > You would need to play with gnus-activate-level in particular, I think.
Yes, I have set gnus-activate-level to 1 and level 1 contains only my main inbox which is a nnmaildir (fed by offlineimap) and I use exactly what you suggest to retrieve my other messages. I even have an idle timer to retrieve everything when emacs is idle for a while. The thing is that, even with that, Gnus is much slower than my colleague’s mu4e and this is a bit frustrating. Another thing I have found to make things slow is having an nnmaildir with lots of messages. I therefore archive the oldest ones and use mairix to index and query. Maybe other methods than nnmaildir would be faster? Anyway, thanks for the hints. If anything else I could do comes to mind, I will be happy to try it. G. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
