GNU bug report logs - #36714
27.0.50; Gnus nnmaildir taking long time to recursively visit sub-Maildirs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:22:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #40 received at 36714 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 36714 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Subject: Re: bug#36714: 27.0.50; Gnus nnmaildir taking long time to
 recursively visit sub-Maildirs
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:34:14 +0100

Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Second of all... unfortunately I don't know this code well enough to
> figure it out without sitting down with a chunk of time. So far as I can
> tell, nnmaildir scans the maildir directories using `directory-files',
> which by itself is very quick. Presumably what's slow is registering all
> the messages inside the directories, and I don't immediately see a way
> of preventing that.

Would it be possible to do custom directory filtering in the
'directory-files' virtual server setting of the nnmaildir backend?

-- 
Basil
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