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Dan Christensen <jdc@chow.mat.jhu.edu> writes:

> nnmail-spool-file's value is 
> ("/var/mail/jdc" "~/Mail/me" "~/Mail/not-me" "~/Mail/ding" "~/Mail/Sent" "~/.record" "~/mbox")
> 
> To my surprise, Gnus worked fine.  Is this supposed to be a valid
> value for this variable with the new mail source stuff?

The code tries to be somewhat backwards-compatible, but I'd rather not
spell that out in the manual.  :-)

> By the way, nnmail-spool-file doesn't appear in the index.

Yup.  Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.81.

> PS:  The documentation gives an example of the form:
> 
>   (setq nnmail-spool-file "po:username")

Yup.  Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.81.

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