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"David Kågedal" <davidk@lysator.liu.se> writes:

> It would be nice to specify something like:
> 
> (setq nnmail-sources '(("/var/mail/davidk" . (nnfolder "mail"))
> 		       ("other source" . (another server))))

I think I want to do it the other way around -- that is, there would
be a server variable that says which mailboxes to fetch for that
server.  `nnfolder-mail-sources', etc.

> What is needed also is that when new news are fetched (with 'g' for
> instance) the *first* mail group in every mail server that wants to be
> updated should fetch mail for that server and update all groups, and
> updating the rest of the groups in that server should be a no-op. As I
> understand it, each of the mail groups today goes out to check for new
> mail. That's slow.

But it doesn't do that any more.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen