If you save messages in folders that are in mailbox format (which you
specify with the mail-format variable), you will be able to access
them with mailers like pine, elm, and Berkeley mail, as well as with
nn.  You can go one step further and save both mail and news messages
in the same folders.  For example, everything I want to save about
nn, whether it was a news or mail message, I save in a folder named
`nn'.  To make this really easy I use the same directory, called
`Folders' for both my news and mail folders.  To do this, you need to
tell your mailer(s) and newsreader(s) that this is the folder
directory.  In nn specify this by putting the following line in your
init.host file.

 set news-folder ~/Folders
 set mail-folder ~/Folders

I put this into init.host because this is host-specific information,
i.e., on another system I may use a different directory structure.

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