GNU bug report logs - #8502
Make the agent eagerly cache articles

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:17:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 8502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: bugs <at> gnus.org
Cc: 8502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ding <at> gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#8502: Make the agent eagerly cache articles
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 00:10:21 -0300
>> IIUC gnus-agent-cache only causes headers to be cached.  Not caching
>> full articles made a lot of sense a few years ago, but with current disk
>> sizes, most/many MUAs happily keep a full local copy of the remote IMAP
>> folders and Gnus should be able to do the same.
> Downloading articles isn't so much about disk space as network
> capacity.  But I agree with you that the Agent should probably download
> the articles by default.

I'm talking about caching.  I.e. keeping local copies after we've
downloaded them, so it shouldn't increase network traffic, only disk use.

> Does anybody mind me switching `gnus-agent-predicate' to `true' by
> default?

Maybe that would be good, yes.  A better docstring would also be
welcome: I don't understand the current one.


        Stefan




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