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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
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prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>> You couldn't have the nnmaildir spool NFS mounted and use the agent
>> when you don't have network connectivity, could you?
> 
> I suppose not.  I don't use caching or the agent; when I did this, I
> didn't know it would break things.  But people can use the agent on
> some servers and not others, right?  Then, at least, they could just
> run with the nnmaildir server closed whenever the NFS mount was
> unavailable.

Sure.

>> Do you also frob group info to renumber the marks?  When do you do
>> this?  Do you use nnchoke-request-update-info?
> 
> Yes.  Article numbers aren't stored on disk at all; -request-scan
> creates the mapping anew each time you close and reopen the server,
> and only keeps it in memory.  Then -request-update-info translates the
> stored marks into a whole new group info.

Hm, how are the permanent marks stored?  Doesn't maildir use integers
as (permanent) article identifiers?