Gnus maildir backend issues

[Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de>]

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

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