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prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> To implement -request-accept-article, I need to write the current time
> into a string as a plain time_t (e.g., "968039378").  Will this
> necessarily involve tedious string operations to do the arithmetic to
> combine the two elements of (current-time), or has this already been
> done somewhere?

(format-time-string "%s")

> This requires nnmaildir storing some marks: read, expirable,
> replied, and any other single mark.  I'd have to tell Gnus about
> marks it doesn't know about when starting up (which is possible with
> -request-update-info), and I'd also have to grab notification
> whenever any of those marks are set/unset (only partially doable,
> with -request-update-mark).  The backend interface would have to
> change somewhat to accomodate this goal - but is it worthwhile
> anyway?

Nnimap does something similar, and uses the -request-set-mark
function.  Perhaps it can be of use to nnmaildir too?