I use Gnus v5.13 and BBDB version 3.2 under GNU Emacs 27.1. BBDB is configured to create new entries only when I send a new message:
(require 'bbdb)
(bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
(bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'message)
(setq
bbdb-mua-auto-update-p 'query
bbdb-message-caching-enabled t
)
Sending emails using gnus-group-mail or compose-mail take radically distinct times:
- gnus-group-mail (20 to 40s)
- compose-mail (<1s)
I could reconfigure "m" and "r" in Gnus to point to 'compose-mail' rather than 'gnus-group-mail', but I am curious as to what could make Gnus so slow?
I thought that it could it be bbdb, so I changed '(bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'message)' to '(bbdb-mua-auto-update-init nil)' to no avail...
I thought that it could be the "gcc" field of the email, so
I replaced
(setq gnus-message-archive-group '((if (message-news-p) "sent-news" "sent-mail")))
by (the default value of the variable)
(setq gnus-message-archive-group '((format-time-string "sent.%Y-%m")))
The delay vanished, but I have no idea why the former would take so long!
