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On 11 Oct 2000, Matthias Wiehl wrote:

> I have Gnus fetching my incoming mail from /var/mail/$USER and
> splitting it up into a couple of folders.  Everything works fine,
> but I noticed that Gnus appends a newline to every mail it fetches,
> and increases the value of the "Lines:" header by one.

Maybe those newlines come from the nnfolder file format?  The nnfolder
file format requires messages to start with a From_ line (a From_ line
is a line which starts with the 5 characters "From "), and to end with
an empty line.

Maybe Gnus is adding the extra line for the latter requirement?

kai
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