Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <oitofelix@gnu.org> writes:
>> Hi Bob,
>> Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:
>>> If you want the absolute ultimate, it's Gnus.
>> I’m also a Gnus users.  Two things to keep in mind though:
>>   1. Gnus becomes quite slow when handling dozens of thousands of
>>      messages;
>>   2. It blocks Emacs entirely while processing them.
>> I hope something could be done about it[1].  Perhaps if Gnus get
>> rewritten to take advantage of the new Lisp threads functionality.  Does
>> someone know if that is doable?
> What server type are you using? IMAP? maildir?

nnml and nnimap (slowness and blocking affect both).

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