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Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Just wondering what kind of problems I might cause my self if after
> several months of accumulating mail in unix style directories:
> /Mail/mail/junk.  I now want to set `nnmail-use-long-file-names' to
> 't' .
> 
> How will gnus handle the change?  Just create a new set of files? 
> Do I have to move things manually to the new setup?

I think the backends disregard this variable if the groups already
exist.  But I may be wrong.

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