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Hi!

Michael Teichgraeber reported¹ that setting `nnmail-split-methods' to
nil sucks all your mail from your mail sources and silently drops
them.

I can confirm this.  ~/.nnmail-cache contains a line with the message
ID of the dropped message but no target folder.  I know that Gnus is
designed to easily shoot yourself in the foot but I think that it
doesn't need to be that simple.  Maybe the IncomingXXX files should be
used, regardless of `mail-source-delete-incoming' in that case?

Cheers, Ray
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