Sam --

...and then Samuel Padgett said...
% David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
% 
% > ...and then Samuel Padgett said...
% > % Mutt seems to use the values out of the Sender header and the Date
% > % header to construct the From_ line.  So maybe the solution is the
% > 
% > Makes sense -- if it's there.  I just checked another message to see and
% > there was no Sender: header.  It's new to me, though I did a quick grep
% > on my spoolfile and found quite a few right off.
% 
% I think Gnus uses Sender: to check whether you should be allowed

Ahhh...


% to cancel a Usenet post.  But that should go away now that they've
% added cancel locks.

Gotcha.


% 
% > % roundabout nnml -> mbox using Gnus, then mbox -> Maildir -> mbox
% > % using Mutt.  Hm.  That's a lot of work.
% > 
% > With tagging it should be easy, right?
% 
% Well, OK, Mutt will do most of the work--but it's still a lot of
% work ;-)

Yeah, I'll give you that :-)


% 
% > % Or perhaps I should just switch to Maildir.
% > 
% > I hear that that's almost always a fantastic idea.  I personally have
% > been too lazy :-)
% 
% So the advantage of Maildir is speed, and the disadvantage is that
% it eats inodes for breakfast?

Those both sound right, but I don't know much else.  There has been some
discussion of box formats in the past; you might check the archives.


% 
% Maybe I should switch to a journaling filesystem as well.

Doesn't sound like a bad idea no matter what your box format.


% 
% Sam


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