From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using R-mail in Emacs Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:21:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86va7afpda.fsf@zoho.com> <83musmktmv.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2hxstkw.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <837ejplc7p.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhwlzct5.fsf@gmail.com> <87d0tgh6rx.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536927652 10450 195.159.176.226 (14 Sep 2018 12:20:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:20:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 14:20:48 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0n5b-0002WW-Ek for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:20:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51538 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0n7c-0007Pj-U5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36711) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0n7D-0007PP-O2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:22:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0n7A-00018i-Hn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53077 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0n7A-0000ok-8E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:22:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0n4o-0001bt-Uk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:19:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:LYR7ihJ+hy92NBYjqauaSHBfK6o= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117910 Archived-At: > 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