Re: Why Gnus is creating .nnmaildir directory in my maildir?

[Jean Louis]

* 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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