Re: gnus, thunderbird and imap

[Richard Riley]

Rud1ger Sch1erz <nospam_tigre@yahoo.es> writes:

> Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu> writes:
>
>> Indicate that I need to set up a local IMAP server to get gnus working.
>
> Why that? I use gnus just with my IMAP account at gmx, concurrently with
> thunderbird, which I sometimes use from a different machine where no
> gnus is installed.
>
> Cheers,
> Rudiger
>

Its a lot faster and you get nnir indexed searching as well as a
local copy of all your mail and the overhead is very low.