From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43805 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Maildir backend Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:11:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20020306103130.A4152@fr.thalesgroup.com> <20020307095642.A6244@fr.thalesgroup.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby.gnus.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1015589651 10917 80.91.224.244 (8 Mar 2002 12:14:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Mar 2002 12:14:11 GMT Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16jJGE-0002pu-00; Fri, 08 Mar 2002 13:14:10 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16jJFC-0005Ea-00; Fri, 08 Mar 2002 06:13:06 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 08 Mar 2002 06:13:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA16435 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 06:12:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 17131 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2002 12:12:50 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17126 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2002 12:12:37 -0000 Original-Received: from gwsmtp.thomson-csf.com (195.101.39.226) by gnus.org with SMTP; 8 Mar 2002 12:12:37 -0000 Original-Received: from thomplex.thomson-csf.com (200.3.2.2) by gwsmtp.thomson-csf.com (NPlex 5.1.053) id 3C889FE20000180F for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:13:28 +0100 Original-Received: from thomplex.thomson-csf.com (200.3.2.2) by thomplex.thomson-csf.com (NPlex 5.1.036) id 3C863DEF0005530B for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:04:21 +0100 Original-Received: from bgxplex3.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com (1.38.9.153) by bgxplex.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com (NPlex 5.1.053) id 3C6D13570003CBAC for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:12:08 +0100 Original-Received: from lully.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com (187.150.3.12) by bgxplex3.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com (NPlex 5.1.053) id 3C7636F7000172B2 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:22:02 +0100 Original-Received: from af_mara by lully.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16jJDo-0002dh-00 for ; Fri, 08 Mar 2002 13:11:40 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from prj@po.cwru.edu on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:00:44PM -0500 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43805 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43805 On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:00:44PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote: > > And it seems that all files from the cur directory > > are duplicated there. >=20 > No. Different files with similar names are created there. But they have to be created anyway. >=20 > > Why aren't directories new, cur and tmp plus a marks file (a kind > > of index file used to store the status of messages) enough to > > handle maildir ? >=20 > new/, cur/, and tmp/ alone would be enough to provide the necessary > Gnus functionality. nnmaildir maintains two additional sets of > information: NOV data and marks. Storing NOV data speeds things up. > Storing marks adds flexibility when working with mailboxes from > outside Gnus. Storing marks in a single file per group, as is done > with nnml and nnfolder (which I assume is what you were referring to > above), would also add flexibility, but not as much. If we give up > the extra flexibility, what do we get in return? I'd rather say : if you don't loose anything with adding this extra flexibility, then there is no reason for not making it possible, unless you're not willing to spend some time on it. If it is possible to have new, cur, tmp and a single mark file per mailbox (i.e. without the .nnmaildir directory), then I'll be happy. Thanks in advance. Cheers, --=20 J=E9r=F4me Marant