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Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> nnimap can't tell if a group is "new" or not, since IMAP mailboxes
> does not have creation dates attached to them, as nntp have.  Listing
> all mailboxes and comparing with a old list wouldn't work either,
> mailbox lists can be infinite in IMAP.

Hm.  If gnus-save-killed-list is non-nil, Gnus would in principle be
able to find that out, wouldn't it?  I know nothing about the guts of
Gnus, though, so maybe something there prevents the functionality from
working...

FWIW, I do use Cyrus, so I'll be happy with something which works
there :-)

kai
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