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Maciej Matysiak <phoner@blah.pl> writes:

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> > > 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
> > Maildir has no From line.
> 
> hm? what do you mean? every single file in ~/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}/*
> has the "From: <user@domain>" line in the header. am i missing something?

The From line is not the From field.  In Unix mail box, every message
starts with a "From ..." (without colon).

> > It is not Gnus job, but time.el, which checks display-time-mail-file,
> > the environment variable MAIL or others.
> 
> ok, the documentation says about display-time-mail-file:
>  *File name of mail inbox file, for indicating existence of new mail.
> 
> is it possible now to give maildir as value for it or does it need a patch?

You can redefine or advise display-time-file-nonempty-p to check
maildir.

Shenghuo