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Re: bug#8055: 24.0.50; [nnmaildir/Gnus] please support in-filename Maild
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: bug#8055: 24.0.50; [nnmaildir/Gnus] please support in-filename Maildir flags |
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Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:29:28 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:24:15 +0100 Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> wrote:
LC> I guess there is nothing new in the nnmaildir support in Gnus, at least
LC> it seems that nothing has changed since Brian Nelson's rant on the
LC> debian-user@ mailing list back in 2004-08-04 [2].
LC> [2] Message-ID: <87hdrivzuk.fsf@scabbers.bignachos.com>
LC> URL:
<http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/%3c87hdrivzuk.fsf%40scabbers.bignachos.com%3e>
LC> URL:
<http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c87hdrivzuk.fsf%40scabbers.bignachos.com%3e>
Also see:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/125311/focus=69753
(short version: nnmaildir was engineered for concurrent access and can
be heavily optimized with secondary indices instead of the current
link-happy system)
IMHO, nnmaildir should be rewritten. The Maildir* spec is not all that
complicated and things have changed a lot since nnmaildir was written.
I would propose it on the Gnus mailing list, not as a bug.
Ted