Batch IMAP jobs?

[mikael . svahnberg]

Hi,

I primarily use gnus to read my gmail, and one of the things I like is the 
ability to quickly and easily mark all the mails that I don't want/need to read 
and move them away from the inbox (to be compatible with other mail readers 
e.g. on my phone, I can't just keep them as old articles and let gnus simply 
not show them).

Any given morning this means that I select 10-20 messages and execute a move 
command. This is a slow operation and may sometimes take a couple of minutes.

I have a sneaking suspicion (no proof, though) that gnus/nnimap issues one move 
command per message.

(a) is this true?

(b) if (a), is there a way to change this behaviour so that a single move 
command for all the selected messages is issued?

(c) if (b), would it make any difference on the speed?


On a side note, when I search messages with (M-s), I get the impression that 
this is done in the same way (i.e. one IMAP search command is issued for each 
message), so it ought to be possible to speed things up here too...


/Mikael