From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Cc: tom@smart.ruhr.de (Thomas Neumann), ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Request for "maildir" support
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:25:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199603042025.VAA04657@durin.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x67mx01xs5.fsf@eyesore.no>
> Fifth, the program _\bN_\bF_\bS_\b-_\bw_\br_\bi_\bt_\be_\bs the mes-
> sage to the file.
>
> If the file is Huge, and Gnus starts reading/moving this file before
> it has arrived totally, won't this potentially mean that Gnus might
> get an incomplete version of the file.
No. Note that the file is written to tmp/. Only when it's complete is
it linked into new/.
> So I guess it isn't as simple as the manual says to read the "new"
> directory. The reader has to check the "cur" directory that the
> corresponding file there has been removed before it attempts to deal
> with a file in the "new" directory.
What corresponding file in cur/? All messages get different filenames.
Unless you run the machine clock backwards or have two hosts with the
same name.
Regards,
Hallvard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-03-04 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-03-04 13:47 Thomas Neumann
1996-03-04 15:21 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1996-03-04 16:56 ` eichin
1996-03-04 19:44 ` Thomas Neumann
1996-03-04 19:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-04 20:25 ` Hallvard B Furuseth [this message]
1996-03-05 20:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-05 21:46 ` Mike Williams
1996-03-04 21:00 ` eichin
[not found] <199603042102.NAA27025@cygnus.com>
1996-03-04 21:11 ` eichin
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