Emacs

Fred puissante at lrc.puissante.com
Thu May 11 12:56:01 EDT 2006


On Thursday 11 May 2006 09:33, Kevin D. Clark uttered thusly:
> Paul Lussier writes:
> > Gnus is a p.i.t.a. to get connected to an IMAP server.
>
> I guess this depends on your pain threshhold.  I do agree that it
> might not be the best choice for somebody who really just wanted a
> traditional GUI mailer (Thunderbird, Evolution).
>
> >  Even more
> > painful of SSL is involved, or the IMAP server is not, er, shall we
> > say, completely "compliant".  In these cases, I've still found
> > fetchmail+procmail+MUA-of choice to be the best option.
>
> BTW, the IMAP server that I have had the most luck with is Courier.
> It is the only one that has withstood my abuse so far.  Dovecot might
> be better now, but I haven't tried it lately.

I currently use Dovecot, and I abuse it mightily. Some of my folders have 
over 100,000 messages in them (from logs and the like) and Dovecot holds up 
nicely under the strain, although it's a bit slow on some operations like 
deleting, but that may be more of a factor of KMail than Dovecot. In fact, 
KMail does NOT do nicely with lots of IMAP accounts with lots of messages 
and folders. I currently have about 25 IMAP accounts set up with a grand 
total of over 1 million email messages. KMail will hit all of those accounts 
all at once upon startup, putting quite a strain on Dovecot (many are on the 
same server). Once it's read everything in, KMail gets a bit better, but 
earlier version than the one that is in FC5 would occasionally crash on 
startup. 

On a side note, I just upgraded my 64-bit laptop to FC5, and am having a bit 
of trouble getting the RT2500 Wireless device working under it (was working 
fine on FC3 [yes, I was 2 versions behind! Bad me, I know...]) The drivers 
seem to be working, but can't seem to get the network to recognize the Wifi. 
Using the latest RT2x00 from the CVS release. Arrgh. Any help would be 
greatly appreciated.

-Fred



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