Reading from a maildir

Hello,

I'd love to read mailing lists in slrn's excellent "delete after reading"
paradigm, so I tried to use slrn to read messages from a maildir.
(I do know about Gmane. Unfortunately, it's not the answer to everything, e.g.
closed company-internal emails. ;)

The basic structure (one file per message) is similar to the one used by
slrnpull, so I thought it shouldn't be too far out of reach.

So I copied a maildir into my `spool_root`,
and while it shows up in the group listing (as three groups, due to the cur,
new, and tmp subfolders, but never mind that for now), I cannot enter the group
, since slrn tells me "No unread articles" (even when I give a prefix argument).

It turns out, the filenames used by the MTA are the reason
(they look like this:
"1238693874_1.1813.elzar,U=15,FMD5=e42be6580d0096a1aff2feecb8227077:2,S").
When I rename them to be just numbers (by cutting off everything after the first
dot and removing the _), slrn enters the group without issue for the first time,
but hangs (with 100% CPU usage) when trying to enter the group again.

Now I'm stumped. What would it take to get slrn to read messages from a maildir?

Thanks for your help,
Wolfgang


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