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Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com> wrote:
> It turned out not to be so simple. I expected to find an interface to
> NOV data somewhere in nnheader.el. To my surprise, there is no unified
> interface to NOV data in Gnus and the code for NOV processing seems to
> be scattered around multiple files.

What sort of interface are you looking for, exactly?  Do you know
about nnheader-parse-head, nnheader-parse-nov, and
nn*-retrieve-headers?

> Some if it is duplicated, as well, it seems that at least nnmaildir
> chose to reimplement most of it completely.

nnmaildir does lots of things differently.


paul