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I just observed what I had always suspected: If gnus is fetching
mail from my `nnmail-spool-file' while mailing is arriving, mail can
be lost.

I was receiving a large file, uuencode and broken up into multiple
messages.  I hit `g' a couple times as the parts were coming in.
One part never showed up in my nnml folder.  But, according to the
log kept by my procmail script, that message *was* stored into my
`nnmail-spool-file'.

Should there be some kind of locking going on between my procmail
script and the gnus nnml backend?  Hmm...