From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus: caching message headers? Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:29:58 -0700 Message-ID: <87sgbs5g89.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <874ko9sgcn.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87v9gpqyir.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2067"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:TtjJxecyuhcK75mhXunVJPN1AAg= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 08 19:31:04 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kFhSS-0000RL-37 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:31:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59384 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kFhSQ-0005OA-TZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34620) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kFhRb-0005Lu-6i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:30:11 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:56794 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kFhRZ-0000K4-GY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:30:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kFhRU-0009pD-D0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:30:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/08 09:19:29 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123998 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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