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Maciej Matysiak <phoner@blah.pl> writes:

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> 1. gnus inserts somehow ">" before "From" when it is at the beginning
>    of the line. in maildir specification you can read:
>       The  message is  delivered  without an extra  UUCP-style "From_"
>       line, without any ">From"  quoting,  and without an extra  blank
>       line at the end.
>    and qmail indeed acts like that. but mail viewed in gnus has those
>    ">From" :( at least, on my system, with quite fresh gnus cvs snapshot.

Gnus uses mail-crash-box (a file in Unix mail format) to collect mails
from various mail sources including maildir,  therefore, Gnus has to
insert ">" before "From ".

> 2. the "x-from-line" header is:
>     X-From-Line: maildir Thu Jul  6 00:59:50 2000
>    instead of
>     X-From-Line: sender@domain Thu Jul  6 00:59:50 2000
>    like it was with mailbox flat file. is it supposed to be like that?

Maildir has no From line.  For the same reason stated previously, a
pseudo From line has to be added.

> 3. the `new mail' indicator in emacs does not work anymore. i'm not sure
>    if it's still gnus job (or emacs, or some system software), so please
>    correct me.

It is not Gnus job, but time.el, which checks display-time-mail-file,
the environment variable MAIL or others.

Shenghuo