From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37246 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: announce: nnmaildir 2001.07.30 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 02:42:03 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172695 12878 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:58:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 21490 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2001 06:42:06 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 30 Jul 2001 06:42:06 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2552 invoked by uid 500); 30 Jul 2001 06:42:25 -0000 Original-To: prjware-announce@multivac.cwru.edu, ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: prjware@multivac.cwru.edu, ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 15 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37246 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37246 CHANGES: bufixes: - narrow to header before nnheader-parse-head features: - server parameter get-new-mail allows traditional mail splitting With mail splitting, I think nnmaildir should now have all the functionality of nnml, along with some extras. I've been told nnmaildir feels faster than nnml, at least on ReiserFS. Still, nnmaildir may not be for everyone. It uses twice as many inodes as nnml. Half of these are for small files (~200 bytes each), which aren't handled well by block-structured filesystems. paul