From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: set up Gnus to work with a remote system mailserver (with Dovecot?)
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:03:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsmnnb8i.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtgwkfod.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
On Thursday, 7 Apr 2022 at 09:43, Russ Allbery wrote:
> In a similar situation, I use the following configuration:
Interesting. Should work for the OP (and even if movemail isn't present
on the server, something similar should be possible).
> This is not very robust and if something goes wrong in the middle it can
> lose mail, so if there's something more built-in, I'd also love to hear
You could consider using different temp files each time, using mktemp to
create a temporary file name in your directory and leave it there just
in case, instead of using the same temp file each time. Then clean up
periodically. You could even name the temp file using a time stamp.
Just some thoughts.
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Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-08 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-07 1:17 Emanuel Berg
2022-04-07 2:34 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2022-04-07 3:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-07 7:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-04-07 8:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-07 8:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-07 8:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-10 11:47 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2022-04-10 13:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-11 3:47 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2022-04-11 4:03 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2022-04-11 22:55 ` Bob Newell
2022-04-12 2:18 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2022-04-12 8:30 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-04-12 6:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-12 6:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-19 23:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-20 0:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-21 12:38 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2022-04-21 13:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-21 13:30 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2022-04-21 13:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-27 20:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-27 20:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-28 3:44 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2022-05-03 2:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-03 6:36 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2022-05-03 7:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-03 7:17 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2022-05-04 0:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-04 11:50 ` expiring in nnselect groups not saved Erik Colson
2022-05-04 17:01 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-05-04 21:47 ` Erik Colson
2022-05-05 0:39 ` Andrew Cohen
2022-05-05 0:48 ` Andrew Cohen
2022-05-05 2:07 ` Andrew Cohen
2022-05-05 10:10 ` Erik Colson
2022-05-05 10:48 ` Erik Colson
2022-05-05 11:09 ` Erik Colson
2022-05-05 11:21 ` Erik Colson
2022-05-05 12:20 ` Erik Colson
2022-05-05 20:59 ` Erik Colson
2022-05-06 0:49 ` Andrew Cohen
2022-05-06 15:42 ` Erik Colson
2022-05-06 16:27 ` Erik Colson
2022-04-07 8:51 ` set up Gnus to work with a remote system mailserver (with Dovecot?) Uwe Brauer
2022-04-07 8:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-07 10:28 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-04-07 16:43 ` Russ Allbery
2022-04-08 10:03 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2022-04-08 11:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-07 9:31 ` Christian Barthel
2022-04-07 10:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-09 23:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-21 1:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-21 2:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-04-21 2:54 ` Emanuel Berg
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