Re: From Gnus to mu4e

[Glenn Morris]

Suvayu Ali wrote:

> Probably Bastien has more up to date comments, but last time I looked, I
> found Gnus's support for maildir rather poor.  There were a few issues,
> it didn't respect the usual maildir flags and stored its own flags
> withing the maildir.  So along with incorrect flag, the mail store took
> about ~70% more disk space.  It was also a bit slow, despite everything
> being local.  My impression is based on the status from about 2-3 years
> back, so things might have improved a lot by now.

Flag handling at least is better since Emacs 24.3
(http://debbugs.gnu.org/8055).