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Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> Would it be possible to allow nnmaildir to use another method for
> storing marks?  Or, perhaps arrange things in such a way that all the
> marks were pointing to a file in the same directory?

I think the easiest change would be to make the .../read/* entries be
links to one file, and the .../expire/* entries be links to another
file.  Then everything works the same as before, with just a few extra
inodes per group.  I'll put this on my todo list.


paul