Re: gnus
Greg Klanderman <gak(a)klanderman.net> writes:
Could one of you heavy Gnus users advise me on getting better mail
performance? I was thinking of switching from nnfolder to nnmaildir
but was a little concerned about having the splitting performance be
worse based on the comparison page in the info manual's comments
regarding nnml splitting performance and similarities of that backend
to nnmaildir. Which backend do you guys use? And how do I move my
existing mail to a new backend?
I wrote the manual's comparison section, originally as a Usenet posting
that Lars edited into the manual, and I use nnml. It has always
performed quite adequately for me, and I like nnml's "nearly nnspool"
nature a great deal. Message-per-file splitting has never seemed all
that problematic. And once mail has been split to files in groups,
performance is as high as you can get.
`B m' moves mail around. It still won't be pretty if you have Gbytes of
mail to move. Experiment with `B c' to copy messages somewhere
temporary (deletable) before you commit to wholesale `B m' movement.
--karl,
hacking (then-)GNUS since 1988
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