Re: TODO idea:

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Paul Franklin <paul@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> >>>>> Arne Elofsson <arne@rune.biokemi.su.se> writes:
> 
>  > I think the best solution is the one I use, and I would really like
>  > more people to use it. I use mh for mailsplitting, and creation of
>  > active and .overview files. Then I use nnml for reading mails.
> 
> Hmm.  But nnml doesn't do any locking of active or .overview files, so
> you're probably introucing a really nasty race condition by doing
> this.
> 
I do not think this is a major problem. The active file and .overview
files in all folders that are touched since the last time I run my
splitting program is recreated from outside gnus. So if nnml changes
some of these files it is no big deal.

> This idea gests proposed reasonably frequently, but has never gained
> widespread acceptance because of the potential for bad things
> happening.



That is true. The only problem I have had is that if you happen to
move/remove your last file in a folder you will miss the next new
new message in that folder. 

(setq nnmail-keep-last-article t)

Helps somehow but not if I remove that file with mh from outside gnus.

It would be nice to have nnml to change the last read message in a
folder to the last message in the active file. I'll hack that someday.


arne


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