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Subject: Re: Add Maildir support to RMAIL
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> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 15:56:36 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: ane@iki.fi, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > From: csh <csh@bluehome.net>
> > Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 05:02:04 -0700 (PDT)
> > Cc: ane@iki.fi
> > 
> > I really love the simplicity of reading mail with RMAIL, but most email providers no longer use the mbox format for mail.  Is there any way someone could get RMAIL working with Maildir mailboxes?
> > 
> > The only thing I could find on the matter was a blog entry[1], but the solution did not seem complete.  It was more of a workaround, and I don't know how well it would work day-to-day.
> 
> Would it be possible to lift some code or ideas from Gnus?

Alternatively, don't GNU Mailutils support Maildir?  If they do, you
could use their 'movemail' instead of the one that comes with Emacs.