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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using R-mail in Emacs
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:21:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzhwkfezc.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d0tgh6rx.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de

> solution.  I've had a look at mu4e but the whole offline IMAP
> construction puts me off a bit.  I always thought it was necessary
> because IMAP is fundamentally just slow, but searching through my mail
> using an Outlook web client is, to my chagrin as a bit of a FOSS
> die-hard, extremely fast.  Does anyone know why that should be?

That's likely because the web-client uses an ad-hoc (and proprietary in
this case) protocol between your computer and the mail server, rather
than IMAP.  So the search is performed on the other side, where the mail
resides, so it's very much like a "local search in an offline-imap
mirror".


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-14 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.615.1536613815.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-12 20:10 ` Using R-mail in Emacs Emanuel Berg
2018-09-13  2:39   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-13  8:13     ` Eric S Fraga
2018-09-13 14:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-13 14:34         ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-13 14:53           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <mailman.731.1536850436.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-14  7:34             ` Loris Bennett
2018-09-14  7:50               ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-14 12:27                 ` Gnus and local mirroring (was: Using R-mail in Emacs) Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 18:03                   ` Gnus and local mirroring Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-14 21:15                     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 23:15                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-15  2:12                         ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-15 15:54                           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-14  8:07               ` Using R-mail in Emacs Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-14  9:09                 ` Robert Pluim
     [not found]               ` <mailman.769.1536912467.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-14  9:31                 ` Loris Bennett
2018-09-14 10:40                   ` Devin Prater
2018-09-14 17:05                     ` Filipp Gunbin
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.773.1536921642.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-14 11:20                     ` Loris Bennett
2018-09-14 14:58                   ` Eric S Fraga
2018-09-14 12:16                 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-14 12:40                   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.778.1536928843.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-14 12:54                     ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-14 14:05                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-14 15:02                         ` Eric S Fraga
2018-09-14 15:25                           ` Eric S Fraga
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.781.1536933989.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-14 14:38                         ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-14 18:35                           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.793.1536950118.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-14 20:07                             ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-15  6:46                               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                               ` <mailman.806.1536994011.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-15 14:12                                 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-15 16:43                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-15 21:42                                     ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-21  0:14                                       ` Bob Proulx
2018-09-21  0:40                                         ` Bob Newell
2018-09-25 23:26                                           ` Bob Proulx
2018-09-27  1:02                                             ` Eric Abrahamsen
     [not found]                                         ` <mailman.1055.1537490409.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-21 16:06                                           ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-21 17:58                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                                             ` <mailman.1105.1537552703.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-21 18:05                                               ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-21 19:27                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                                                 ` <mailman.1109.1537558053.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-21 21:44                                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-22  6:32                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                                                     ` <mailman.1123.1537597944.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-22  7:51                                                       ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-21 20:46                                             ` Bob Newell
     [not found]                                             ` <mailman.1110.1537562788.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-21 21:55                                               ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]                                       ` <mailman.1051.1537488901.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-21 15:57                                         ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-14 12:11               ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-14 12:21               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-09-14 14:08                 ` Vegard Vesterheim
     [not found]         ` <mailman.730.1536849270.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-13 16:03           ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-13 16:05         ` Eric S Fraga
     [not found]       ` <mailman.725.1536847871.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-13 15:52         ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-13  5:26   ` Joost Kremers
2018-09-13  6:33   ` YUE Daian
2018-09-13 13:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-13 14:09     ` Martin Šlouf
     [not found]   ` <mailman.711.1536820440.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-13 13:35     ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found] <mailman.757.1536886463.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-14 10:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-14 11:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-14  0:54 Bob Newell
2018-09-14  7:39 ` Robert Pluim
     [not found] <mailman.719.1536839513.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-13 13:38 ` Emanuel Berg
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2018-09-13 11:51 Jude DaShiell
2018-09-13 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 20:33 Ryan Lloyd
2018-09-11 19:30 ` Bob Newell

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