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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




  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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