+2003-03-27 Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu>
+
+ * gnus.texi (Comparing Mail Back Ends): Note nnmaildir's
+ incompatibilities more prominently.
+
2003-03-27 Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu>
* gnus.texi (Maildir): Note nnmail-expiry-target incompatibility.
@item nnmaildir
+For configuring expiry and other things, @code{nnmaildir} uses
+incompatible group parameters, slightly different from those of other
+mail back ends.
+
@code{nnmaildir} is largely similar to @code{nnml}, with some notable
differences. Each message is stored in a separate file, but the
filename is unrelated to the article number in Gnus. @code{nnmaildir}
it's not as easy to work with them from outside Gnus as with
@code{nnmaildir}.
-For configuring expiry and other things, @code{nnmaildir} uses group
-parameters slightly different from those of other mail back ends.
-
@code{nnmaildir} uses a significant amount of memory to speed things up.
(It keeps in memory some of the things that @code{nnml} stores in files
and that @code{nnmh} repeatedly parses out of message files.) If this
removed in the future.
Startup is likely to be slower with @code{nnmaildir} than with other
-back ends. Everything in between is likely to be faster, depending in
-part on your file system.
+back ends. Everything else is likely to be faster, depending in part
+on your file system.
@code{nnmaildir} does not use @code{nnoo}, so you cannot use @code{nnoo}
to write an @code{nnmaildir}-derived back end.