From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sascha Wilde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Gnus maildir backend issues Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:31:34 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194017256 21731 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2007 15:27:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 02 16:27:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1InyQo-0001Df-0O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:27:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1InyQd-00078K-UO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:27:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1InyPs-0006Hn-T8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1InyPr-0006GA-3n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1InyPq-0006G3-UD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.km1136.keymachine.de ([62.141.58.119] helo=km1136.keymachine.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1InyPq-0006B3-FA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from kenny.sha-bang.de (xdslv197.osnanet.de [82.149.183.197]) (authenticated bits=0) by km1136.keymachine.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id lA2FQO4H023234; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:26:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=kenny.sha-bang.de) by kenny.sha-bang.de with esmtp (Kenny MUA v.0409034.42) ID 1InyUg-00074g-II; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:31:34 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82361 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65531 Archived-At: 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 ding@gnus.org, please CC me in any reply. -- "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." -- Tim Berners-Lee, July 1996