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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> > P.S. I just remembered that it would also be nice if we could use
> > another group as a mailgroups spool directory.
> 
> I don't quite follow...

Let me clarify: Now the back-ends go getch their new mails from some
spool file. They fetch messages one by one and move them to the
respective group.

Suppose that instead they would take all the new messages in a group A
as the "spool" for B:
i.e. do the following:
foreach new message M in A do
  mark M als read
  copy M to the B as a new message
end

Now this may seem a silly exercise but it is nice if A is say a mail
archive on some slow ftp server and B is a say a local nnfolder group.


Jan