Tassilo Horn <tass...@member.fsf.org> writes: >>> The agent is sort of a cache, so that you have to download articles >>> only once. In general, you always want that for newsgroups. But for >>> mail groups, it's a different story. When you delete a message >>> (possibly with another mail client, e.g. the web interface of your >>> mail provider), the agent doesn't recognize that and you end up with >>> strange results like duplicate messages and stuff like you mentioned. >> >> Okay, that makes everything clear. I would prefer to work with agent >> then. Because that is faster and also handy when I get offline. But as >> long as I do not everything with GNUS I'll keep it disabled. On the >> other hand: why can GNUS not clean it up? > > Well, Gnus was initially a newsreader, and there articles don't > disappear magically. So my suggestion for good performance with mails: > Install a local IMAP server (e.g. Dovecot) that you access with Gnus, > and synch that with your remote accounts using OfflineIMAP. I do that > for years, and it works just perfectly.
I already work with a local IMAPS server, but when travelling that will offcourse not be the case. Bye the way a bigger problem is expire. Sometimes I have to wait half a minute to a minute going to another folder. Maybe it would be better to do the expiring not always? Say at most once a day. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english