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Stephen Witt <witt@pairgain.com> writes:

> As an old mh user who's recently switched to gnus, I was wondering how I might
> get the mh 'folder' functionality with gnus.  What is the best way to store mail 
> msgs that I want to keep an arbitrary length of time?  

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "folder functionality", but I'll
take a stab at your question.  If you mean the one file per message
and one directory per folder format that MH uses, there are two
existing Gnus backends use this exact format.  nnml, and nnmh.  The
latter is an MH compatible backend.  

See "http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_6.html#SEC144" for more info on
the different mail backends.

   Jason R. Mastaler                      jason@mastaler.com