Re: address@hidden: gnus queries all mail folders on startup]

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

> From: Chris Moore <address@hidden>
> Subject: gnus queries all mail folders on startup
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:18:08 +0100
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> I'm using nnimap in gnus to read my email.
>
> Each time I start gnus, it polls every one of my hundreds of mail
> folders, which takes quite a long time.
>
> I've set gnus-activate-level to 5, and unsubscribed from the folders I
> don't want it to scan.  I've checked, and those folders now have a
> rank of 6, and so they shouldn't be scanned by default.

Since nobody seems to have followed up on this...

Chris, what is the value of `gnus-read-active-file'?  According to the
documentation, it should be `some' by default.  If it is t, try
setting it to some to see if that solves the problem.

(Gnus node: "The Active File")

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Michael Welsh Duggan
(address@hidden)