From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>
Subject: Re: Why isn't Gnus reading my mail?
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:26:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9wu9pz9ll.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.524.1069702617.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Mon, Nov 24 2003, Dan Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 10:40, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:
[...]
>> > I keep several hundred megs of e-mail and if Gnus tried slurping
>> > the entire file into memory my box would have no ram left for
>> > programs.
>>
>> Seems like you are confused about what nnml actually _is_.
>
> What am I missing?
(info "(gnus)Choosing a Mail Back End")
(info "(gnus)Mail Spool")
(info "(gnus)Comparing Mail Back Ends")
nnml uses "one file per article" just like nnmaildir. Both should
more or less work equally well for large groups. Both back ends *do
not* put all messages into memory at once.
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-24 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-23 21:09 Why isn't Gnus reading my mail? Dan Anderson
2003-11-24 7:20 ` Jesper Harder
2003-11-24 8:56 ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-24 15:23 ` Dan Anderson
2003-11-25 20:00 ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-25 20:21 ` Dan Anderson
2003-11-25 20:30 ` Henrik Enberg
2003-11-26 9:27 ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-24 15:24 ` Dan Anderson
2003-11-24 15:40 ` David Kastrup
2003-11-24 18:34 ` Dan Anderson
2003-11-24 21:48 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <mailman.535.1069714269.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-25 2:55 ` Dan Anderson
2003-11-25 3:48 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <mailman.524.1069702617.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-24 22:26 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2003-12-17 20:19 ` Kai Grossjohann
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