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Thomas Neumann <blacky_tn@gmx.de> writes:

> Wouldn't it make more sense to handle the marks in a fashion close to
> courier? [appending them to the filename] and generate a single
> overview-file containg all novs?

nnml stores marks in the .marks file in that directory, and stores
novs in .overview.  Seems like nnml does what you're asking for.

But do note the other comment about the size-zero files being hard
links to each other -- I think that way only one inode is used, even
for many directory entries.
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