From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8181 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Pakaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Reading mail on two different hosts Date: 04 Oct 1996 08:40:28 +0300 Sender: jurip@cc.Helsinki.FI Message-ID: <87684r478y.fsf@cyteen.Helsinki.FI> References: <87iv8sj7nc.fsf@cyteen.Helsinki.FI> Reply-To: pakaste@cc.Helsinki.FI NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.82) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148384 10578 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:13:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA00761 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:57:15 -0700 Original-Received: from cyteen.Helsinki.FI (jurip@vuoro.in.Helsinki.FI [128.214.182.64]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 07:39:43 +0200 Original-Received: (from jurip@localhost) by cyteen.Helsinki.FI (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA00627; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 08:40:32 +0300 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.40/XEmacs 19.14 In-Reply-To: Richard Pieri's message of 03 Oct 1996 13:49:05 -0400 Original-Lines: 25 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8181 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8181 >>>>> "RP" == Richard Pieri writes: >>>>> "JP" == Juri Pakaste 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