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Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:

> I would be *quite* handy if Gnus could (at least) read MS Outlook
> Express mailboxes (.dbx). There exist a perl program that converts
> them to folders if someone needs a push in the right
> direction. (Sorry, don't know the URL but I think it exist on CPAN.)
> 
> Or does this feature already exist?

A new feature is committed into the CVS repository.  It is not a new
backend, but a type of the nndoc backend.  To read a MS Outlook
Express mailbox, type `G f /path/mailbox.mdx'.

I only investigated one version of Outlook mailbox. If you know other
variants, please fix nndoc-outlook-type-p.

ShengHuo