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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] faces and the plumb messages received by cpu connections
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:48:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b59e9c430f9b66857a8dad1a8570a8e4@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8a70e0aae8c955053e4ba93291fbaf1@quintile.net>

i use two mailboxes at work -- one local and one imap.  this 
requires some changes to nedmail as ned assumed that
any named mbox needed to be reopened.

my copy of nedmail is in /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/nedmail.c.
if this is helpful, let me know and i'll clean it up for submission.

- erik

On Fri Mar 16 08:40:21 EDT 2007, steve@quintile.net wrote:
> I would suggest a better solution would be to start the local upas/fs
> watching the two different mailboxes - I haven't tried this for a long time
> but it should work (bitrot not withstanding).
> 
> in your profile:
> 
> 	plumber
> 	9fs remote
> 	upas/fs -n		# do not open /mail/box/$user/mbox
> 	echo open /mail/box/$user/mbox loc > /mail/fs/ctl
> 	echo open /remote/mail/box/$user/mbox rem > /mail/fs/ctl
> 	rio
> 
> There may still be some assumptions in the plumber or upas/fs
> about the name of the mailbox to watch / plumb, however that
> seems like the proper place for a fix (IMHO).


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-16 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-16  9:15 Gabriel Díaz
2007-03-16 12:39 ` Steve Simon
2007-03-16 13:48   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-03-16 15:57 ` Russ Cox
2007-03-16 18:07   ` Gabriel Diaz

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