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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> The `nnmail-spool-file' variable is mentioned in the manual in the 
> sections about mail sources.  Perhaps you can suggest improved text?  I 
> guess it could say that the default for `nnmail-spool-file' actually IS to 
> fetch mail from your local mail spool.  Hm.

Argh. I did not read carefully this section. Silly me :-|. And no, I
have nothing for improving this text ; it is quite clear once you have
read it.


> Can you suggest text?  I'm afraid I don't understand what this has to do
> with IMAP at all, the problem (as I understood it) was that Gnus fetched
> mail from /var/spool/mail when you added a nnml backend.

You are right. This has nothing to do with IMAP.

Nicolas.