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Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

> >        Fifth, the program _N_F_S_-_w_r_i_t_e_s the mes-
> >        sage to the file. 
> > 
> > If the file is Huge, and Gnus starts reading/moving this file before
> > it has arrived totally, won't this potentially mean that Gnus might
> > get an incomplete version of the file.
> 
> No.  Note that the file is written to tmp/.  Only when it's complete is
> it linked into new/.

Whoops.  My eyes kinda skidded past item six there.  

So it would seem that the maildir format is OK.  Making the mail
backends understand its format should be no problem.  I've added this
to the Red Gnus todo list.

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