Re: expire behaviour in nnimap

[Pranav K. Tiwari]

Any ideas on how to avoid downloading an article while expiring, when it
is already present in agent cache?

-p

jpranav@nonono.com (Pranav K. Tiwari) writes:

> I use nnimap backend, and cache the articles locally using agent. The
> expired articles go into an nnml folder.
>
> When expired articles are moved to the nnml folder, nnimap reads the
> articles from the server, even if agent has a copy. This doesn't matter
> over a fast link, but when I have a slow link, expiring a 5MB article
> takes a lot of time reading it from the server, even if I have a local
> copy. Note that reading an article is fine - it picks it up from the
> copy in the agent cache.
>
> Anyone else seeing this, or is it broken in my config? I'm using:
>
> emacs version: GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)
> gnus version : No Gnus v0.6
>
> regards,
> -p
>
>
>
> -- 
> Pranav Tiwari.

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Pranav Tiwari.