Re: beginner splitting mail

[Adam Sjøgren]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> That sounds scary, but what does it mean? What I can
> see the nnml "format" is a bunch of files in a
> directory tree, everything structured logically - just
> like everything else in the Unix/Linux world. Not
> compatible? I don't think it gets more compatible than
> that.

Gnus keeps an index (.overview) and marks (.marks) in its own format,
and it assumes that nobody messes with the emails/files.

I think that is what is meant by "not being compatible": you can't point
another program at the files, have it do changes, and expect Gnus to
still work correctly.


  Best regards,

    Adam

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