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Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com> writes:

> People not using POP wouldn't notice, because it would translate to
> (maybe) one movemail invocation, and 99 stat calls that find that the
> incoming mail file is zero length; since there's no mail to fetch,
> movemail isn't run after the first time.  That optimization can't be
> done in the POP case, because you can't see into the mail spool.  If
> that optimization were removed, I bet everyone would notice "<number>
> g" being slow.

nnmail keeps track of what mailboxen it has tried to move in each
"pass", so you won't see this behavior in Gnus 5.4.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen