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Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> IMAP is a little odd just because it's kind of in between: the server
> handles message storage, but the user "owns" the mail in the sense that
> they're allowed to split, move, expire, etc. So some of the nnmail stuff
> is relevant (splitting), but not most of it. A "real" nnmail backend is
> one that ends up calling `nnmail-get-new-mail'.

Thanks for the clarification.