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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why isn't Gnus reading my mail?
Date: 24 Nov 2003 22:48:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5znel4euy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1069698869.18997.50.camel@hades.syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com>

Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 10:40, David Kastrup wrote:
> > Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Try nnml instead of nnmaildir.
> > > 
> > >         That isn't an option for me.  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?

The Gnus manual?

C-h i d m gnus RET i nnml RET

nnml does not read every mail into memory.  It keeps each mail in a
separate file and maintains a fast data base for accessing those.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-24 21:48 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 [this message]
     [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
2003-12-17 20:19 ` Kai Grossjohann

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