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Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> I'm wondering about the feasibility of an idea:  could Gnus set the
> `Status:' header to some sort of meaningful value(s) in the actual
> message files when using the nnml back end?  This way, some external
> (i.e., non-Gnus) software could interrogate the new/read/unread/etc.
> status of email in the various nnml directories I'm using.
> 
> This would also be nice within the other back ends, as well, such as
> nnfolder ... but perhaps this is already done in some of these ... ???

Well, that information already exists.  For example, you could just
parse the ~/.newsrc.eld file.

Using Status headers in the way you describe might be possible, but
would be really expensive.  For instance, if you did a catchup on a
group with many articles, Gnus would have to open each file and modify 
it.  This could take a really long time.

-- 
Justin Sheehy

In a cloud bones of steel.