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> Mm I don't see why you would have two copies, if offlineimap is
> bidirectional and if gnus is not behaving too crazily the changes you do
> to your Maildir will be also written on the remote imap server.
> Is that correct?

IIUC the assumption "if gnus is not behaving too crazily" is not quite
warranted: more specially, I think it does not save the state of
messages in the standard Maildir way.  Instead, it's saved in
a Gnus-specific file.


        Stefan