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On 19 Jul 2000, Steve Harris wrote:

> No. Sorry, I think I mixed terminology again. The Message ID is as
> you expect it - written by your server. Rather, I meant to say that
> the *file name* given to the message in the maildir folder has the
> "time.pid.host" format, and qmail is taking the first part of that
> file name and using it as the UID. Does that make more sense?

Right.  So: the Message-IDs don't change when changing from qmail to
Courier, but that's not relevant.  The UIDs could change.

It would be really nifty if Gnus could cope with large article
numbers, or used a data type other than plain integer for the article
numbers. 

kai
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