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Sergey writes:

> I wonder why simple 'nil is not accepted as well: it's extremely
> confusing.

nnnil is the "do nothing" backend, the name is similar to eg nnimap,
nnspool, and nnmbox.

The historical split between the primary select method and the secondary
methods is more confusing to me :-)


  Best regards,

    Adam

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