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Organization: What did you have in mind?  A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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J=E9r=F4me Marant <jerome.marant@fr.thalesgroup.com> wrote:
>   I've tried nnmaildir but I think that it is not satisfactory
>   since it takes a lot of resources (mostly heavy duplication of
>   files)

What do you mean?

>   it is pretty slow (the more files there are the slower
>   it starts).

Yes, I've got some ideas to improve that.

>   no NOV,

What's wrong with NOV?

>   and renaming files with respect to their status (read,
>   signed, and so on).

I don't think the standard maildir flags-in-filename scheme is
sufficient to accomodate all of Gnus's marks (and certainly not
user-defined marks).  We could have a different flags-in-filename
scheme that would be more accomodating, but it would be unrecognizable
to other maildir readers.  Would that still be worthwhile for you?
What would be the advantages over nnmaildir's current mark system?


paul