Re: caching message list

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:06:17PM -0500, Jim Strathmeyer wrote:
> So I generally read lists with tons of messages in them. When I load 
> them, it takes quite some time to read all of the messages form the 
> server (a minute or two.) Is there a way to cache them, the way that 
> Thunderbird does? I'm a new tin user, and it seems that it should only 
> have to download new headers, but it seems like it redownload all of the 
> headers every time that I restart tin.

[tin(1)]
| GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU AND TINRC CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES
[...]
|  Cache NNTP overview files locally (cache_overview_files)
|     If ON, create local copies of NNTP overview files. This can be used
|     to considerably speed up accessing large groups when using a slow
|     connection.  See also "INDEX FILES". Default is OFF.
[...]
|  Number of articles to get (getart_limit)
|     If getart_limit is > 0 not more than getart_limit articles/group
|     are fetched from the server. If getart_limit is < 0 tin will start
|     fetching articles from your first unread minus absolute value of
|     getart_limit. Default is 0, which means no limit.

I'd use local caching, if that is no option (due to lack of
diskspace) I'd use something like getart_limit=-100 or
getart_limit=-500 (a negative value ensures that you won't lose any
articles which might happen with positive values!) so threads can be
build propperly. you might also want to take a look at the other
connection speed up switches like -d, -n and -q.

HTH,
urs
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