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Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu> writes:

> A long time ago we talked about a backend like nnml but with subdirectories
> holding chunks of messages.  It never got off the ground.

XEmacs at least can talk natively to a DBM type database library.
Wouldn't that be ideal?

Jan