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Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:

>> Probably heresy but I'm wondering if the value of these things is so
>> great as to merit not just dropping it as a nice idea but not that
>> workable.
>
> As an end-user, I would like to weigh in in favor of the new marks
> code. I find the recently introduced Recent mark very useful. Also,
> the ability to rsync a directory and have one's previous state
> restored is very handy.
>
> Whatever is decided, I hope there is a user-configurable variable that
> allows one to use the current behavior.

The `nnml-marks-is-evil' and `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' variables
exists, and disabling the nnml/nnfolder marks stuff should be as easy
as changing the default value of that variable.

You can't disable the recent or seen marks AFAIK though.