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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> I'd like to optimize spam/ham processing, which currently takes an
> article as a string out of the article buffer.  This is slow, so I'd
> like to map an article number to a file when possible.

I wonder if it is faster to fetch the article into a buffer and to
pipe it to the command?  Would that work with the commands used by
spam.el?

If this is fast enough, it would avoid special-casing for
file-per-msg backends.
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