From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Utkarsh Singh <utkarsh190601@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Why Gnus is creating .nnmaildir directory in my maildir?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:03:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHYHJ3OXfoGygink@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im4qgov4.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
* Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> [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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-13 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-13 15:26 Why Gnus is creating .nnmaildir directory in my maildir? Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-13 15:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-04-13 17:54 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-14 4:34 ` maildir package - " Jean Louis
2021-04-14 4:49 ` Recommended maildir sorting " Jean Louis
2021-04-13 21:03 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-04-13 22:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-04-14 4:11 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-15 19:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-04-13 21:01 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-14 4:50 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-14 5:07 ` Jean Louis
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