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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Gnus has been fetching mail automatically from /var/mail/jrl for so
> many years -- do you think it's a good idea to turn that off now?

Gnus had no way to see that my IMAP inbox is the same than
/var/mail/kowalski, OK. I had no way (other than posting to this list)
to known that Gnus would fetch mail automatically when using some mail
backends, without mail-sources.

What I think is that of course Gnus should keep its years old
behaviour, and that a bit of documentation in the IMAP node should
mention it. 

Nicolas.