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Gnus attachment downloading blocks other Emacs interaction (was: w3 unde
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Gnus attachment downloading blocks other Emacs interaction (was: w3 under development or not?) |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:01:41 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v) |
On 14 Nov 2003, test1dellboy3@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> I know this is slightly off-topic, but I have the same problem when
> I download my email under GNUs. It hangs for a long time while 50 of
> the latest "Microsoft Internet Security patches" or other crap are
> retrieved. During this wait, I would prefer to be working in a
> another Emacs window, but Emacs won't accept any input.
>
> As suggested, is it a "design feature" of Emacs rather than
> configuration problem?
I would suggest the gnu.emacs.gnus newsgroup for this discussion.
Followup-To set appropriately.
You can do two things (there may be other solutions, this is what I
would do), separately or in combination:
- use IMAP, which does not require you to download the whole message
- use the Gnus spam.el package or a procmail-style filter to
eliminate junk mail
In addition, if you request the feature (asynchronous article
downloading) in the Gnus newsgroup, maybe someone will write it.
While Emacs itself is single-threaded, it can handle concurrent
("asynchronous") processes - see the start-process function,
for instance. Gnus can take advantage of that, I think, and the
possibility has been discussed before.
Ted
- Poppong mail (Re: w3 under development or not?), (continued)
- Poppong mail (Re: w3 under development or not?), Gian Uberto Lauri, 2003/11/14
- Re: w3 under development or not?, Peter Lee, 2003/11/14
- Re: w3 under development or not?, Ted Zlatanov, 2003/11/14
- Re: w3 under development or not?, Peter Lee, 2003/11/14
- Re: w3 under development or not?, Ted Zlatanov, 2003/11/14
- Re: w3 under development or not?, Peter Lee, 2003/11/14
- Re: w3 under development or not?, Juri Linkov, 2003/11/15
- Re: w3 under development or not?, Ted Zlatanov, 2003/11/15
- Re: w3 under development or not?, Alan Mackenzie, 2003/11/17
- Re: w3 under development or not?, Harry Putnam, 2003/11/14
- Gnus attachment downloading blocks other Emacs interaction (was: w3 under development or not?),
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: OT spamfilter, A . L . Meyers, 2003/11/14
- Re: OT spamfilter, Harry Putnam, 2003/11/14
- Re: OT spamfilter, A . L . Meyers, 2003/11/15
- Re: OT spamfilter, Tim McNamara, 2003/11/14
Re: w3 under development or not?, Joe Corneli, 2003/11/12