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Gnus maildir backend issues
From: |
Sascha Wilde |
Subject: |
Gnus maildir backend issues |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:31:34 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi *,
there are two issues with the Gnus maildir backend (nnmaildir) which I
would like to discuss:
1. the backend creates empty files in .nnmaildir/num for each mail seen
and never deletes them. This results in thousands and thousands of
(empty) files (last time I looked in a regularly used folder there
were more than 35000 files in the .nnmaildir directory.
I don't understand why these files are needed and I definitely
consider it a bug, that they are never removed.
2. the backend moves mail from new to cur whenever mails/news are
fetched, that means that mails are removed from the new folder,
without being noticed in any way by the user.
It would be great to have an option, that says: only move mails to
cur when the folders summary was displayed. (mutt has an option like
this and the use case is, that more than one person accesses the
maildir folder)
cheers
sascha
PS. I'm not subscribed to address@hidden, please CC me in any reply.
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- Gnus maildir backend issues,
Sascha Wilde <=