I'm going to get myself kicked in the nuts. I think mutt + offlineimap is what you need. Mutt does native Maildir support, so you won't have to screw with hard links or whatever that gnus stuff was. Just sync it up normally. Google for 'mutt header cache' - it's _awesome_. It will cache the maildir and imap headers so that opening up those mailboxes with 10k messages is quick. The maintainer of that patch is hoping to get it merged into mutt, but until then, there's a .deb of the current Debianized mutt with the patch (http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~sithglan/mutt/mutt_1.5.6-20040722+1_i386.deb). See the page for instructions on use, and make sure to hold mutt so the offical Debian package doesn't overwrite it. I use mutt with emacs's mail mode, and it works wonderfully. I run screen and pop back and forth between them by setting my editor to be emacsclient. Good luck, Alec
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