From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus: caching message headers?
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:29:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgbs5g89.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvr1rc1gtf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> it seems to work. Is there a way to tell gnus-agent to create only a cache
>> of headers, that is, to not store a local copy of the emails that have
>> been read?
>
> Interesting. IMO nowadays MUAs should work by systematically
> maintaining a full local copy of your mailboxes/folders.
Setting `gnus-use-cache' to t will save everything. I can't remember if
there are any knobs for limiting the total disk space used, etc.
> [ And ideally, the IMAP protocol would be replaced by something like the
> Git protocol for that, so something like `git pull`, and `git push` would
> be used to fetch new mail and update flags, delete messages on the
> remote server, ... ]
Now this is just crazy talk :) But have you looked a JMAP?
https://jmap.io/spec.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-08 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-07 15:23 Gnus: caching message headers? Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-07 16:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-07 17:10 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-07 17:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-07 17:49 ` wgreenhouse
2020-09-08 13:19 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-08 13:37 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-08 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-08 17:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-09-08 21:52 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-08 22:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-08 16:12 ` wgreenhouse
2020-09-08 20:39 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-07 17:50 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-07 17:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-07 23:48 ` Multiple summary buffers (was: Gnus: caching message headers?) Tim Landscheidt
2020-09-08 0:22 ` Multiple summary buffers Eric Abrahamsen
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2020-09-10 8:38 Gnus: caching message headers? Ozhap
2020-09-10 9:00 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-10 9:34 ` Ozhap
2020-09-10 9:45 ` Ozhap
2020-09-10 13:16 ` wgreenhouse
2020-09-10 23:41 Ozhap
2020-09-11 22:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-12 23:08 ` Ozhap
2020-09-12 23:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-10-04 9:12 ` Madhu
2020-10-07 11:39 Ozhap
2020-10-08 1:59 Ozhap
2020-10-08 3:28 Ozhap
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