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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> Fetching a message at a time may be inconvenient or unfeasible, so I
> think a format like digests that allows 1 to N attachments with
> minimal overhead and no quoting issues is nice.

I think it's a good idea to process one message at a time, if the
fetching process allows this.

The fetching that uses movemail to fetch from /var/mail/jrl could use
the existing mechanism to narrow to each message in sequence, and
then call the one-message-at-a-time function.
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