Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstan...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 11:06:05PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > Does lore.kernel.org run public-inbox-imapd? > > I'm still not convinced it's useful for huge collections, especially > considering how chatty IMAP is. Is there any benefit to enable it for lei use?
lei tries to treat IMAP and NNTP the same for (import|tag). One benefit of IMAP over NNTP is it doesn't add Xref or Newsgroups headers that could throw off OID-based deduplication. The other is compression (see below). lei will be able to use IMAP IDLE to detect new messages for auto-import; AFAIK there's nothing like it in NNTP. In general, client-side support for read-only IMAP folders is lacking, but lei isn't too different in that regard. On the Perl side (which affects lei): * the Mail::IMAPClient maintainer has been responsive to bugfixes I've sent, while the Net::NNTP (libnet) maintainer hasn't been. * as a result, Net::NNTP doesn't have DEFLATE support, yet https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129966 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129967 * Net::NNTP is bundled with Perl, but Mail::IMAPClient is a separate package (but widely-packaged by distros) -- unsubscribe: one-click, see List-Unsubscribe header archive: https://public-inbox.org/meta/
