From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why Gnus is creating .nnmaildir directory in my maildir? Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:03:35 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87im4qb3yt.fsf@gmail.com> <87im4qgov4.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21372"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Utkarsh Singh To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 13 23:09:18 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lWQHe-0005RF-HI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2021 23:09:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52302 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lWQHd-0004VN-Kn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:09:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51516) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lWQGv-0004VE-Eb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:08:33 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:51027) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lWQGt-0004ZD-Io for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:08:33 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.34.191]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000280C9.000000006076084B.00007C31; Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:08:26 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Eric Abrahamsen , Utkarsh Singh , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87im4qgov4.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128988 Archived-At: * Eric Abrahamsen [2021-04-13 19:08]: > The nnmaildir backend uses the .nnmaildir directory to store cached > headers and other information about your maildir messages, for faster > retrieval. Many people don't like this, and/or would prefer more > configurability, but at the moment there's no way around it. For now you > can tell notmuch to ignore that path with the "new.ignore" option in > your notmuch config. That is terribly flawed design that does not work. Maildir messages are files, it is quite easy to read subjects, headers when directory is listed within short time. What Gnus does to Maildir is abuse to user's data hard disk as there is no warning about it. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ https://rms-support-letter.github.io/