From: Juri Pakaste <pakaste@cc.Helsinki.FI>
Subject: Re: Reading mail on two different hosts
Date: 04 Oct 1996 08:40:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87684r478y.fsf@cyteen.Helsinki.FI> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Richard Pieri's message of 03 Oct 1996 13:49:05 -0400
>>>>> "RP" == Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu> writes:
>>>>> "JP" == Juri Pakaste <pakaste@cc.Helsinki.FI> writes:
JP> I was thinking that I could perhaps split my mail into nnmbox
JP> folders at the university, and then tell Gnus at home to use
JP> ange-ftp to fetch them, and insert them into the nnml groups I
JP> use normally.
RP> nnmail-spool-file may be set to a list of files for incoming mail
RP> spools. Gnus will go to each, in order, and drag them over to
RP> the local mail area. ange-ftp is possibly not the best way to do
Okay. But if I do it this way, will it preserve the marks on what's
read, etc? Does Gnus store that information with some additional
header (umm... "Status"?), or in a separate file?
RP> it, simply because there is no file locking whatsoever involved
RP> with FTP. So, if anything attempts to access those files on the
RP> 'server' while you are transferring them, almost any kind of
RP> corruption could occour.
Oh. Is there a way that would avoid this? Scp, perhaps?
--
Juri Pakaste/Juri.Pakaste@Helsinki.FI
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-10-04 5:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-03 17:10 Juri Pakaste
1996-10-03 17:49 ` Richard Pieri
1996-10-04 5:40 ` Juri Pakaste [this message]
1996-10-04 14:01 ` Colin Rafferty
1996-10-03 18:05 ` Kai Grossjohann
1996-10-04 5:30 ` Juri Pakaste
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