Re: Using R-mail in Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

> solution.  I've had a look at mu4e but the whole offline IMAP
> construction puts me off a bit.  I always thought it was necessary
> because IMAP is fundamentally just slow, but searching through my mail
> using an Outlook web client is, to my chagrin as a bit of a FOSS
> die-hard, extremely fast.  Does anyone know why that should be?

That's likely because the web-client uses an ad-hoc (and proprietary in
this case) protocol between your computer and the mail server, rather
than IMAP.  So the search is performed on the other side, where the mail
resides, so it's very much like a "local search in an offline-imap
mirror".


        Stefan