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Subject: Re: Gnus and the qmail maildir format
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>>>>> "jdc" == Dan Christensen <jdc@chow.mat.jhu.edu> writes:

 jdc> Do you think Gnus should have a maildir backend?  This is
 jdc> orthogonal to the issue of being able to incorporate mail from a
 jdc> maildir spool, but there would be some overlap in code.

I was talking about incorporating from a maildir spool; sorry for
misusing the phrase "back end" in my last message.

Supporting maildir as a folder format is also an interesting idea, but
probably not as important.  I think nnml (for example) is adequate
since you never have multiple processes manipulating the folder and
you can always regenerate the overview database from scratch.

 - Pat