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"Rene Matteau" <matteau@vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> (setq mail-sources '(
>         (file :path "/matteau@matteau:/var/spool/mail/matteau")
>         ))

I don't think this will work.  We use movemail to move mail, and it
doesn't understand ange-ftp file names.  One could use `rename-file',
but that wouldn't do file locking, which means that You Would Lose
Mail Sooner Or Later, which is not nice.

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