From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 24256 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2022 10:05:45 -0000 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.32) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 8 Apr 2022 10:05:45 -0000 Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nclUl-000lD1-6F for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2022 05:05:35 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nclUj-0072IY-L2 for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2022 05:05:33 -0500 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nclUi-0072IR-C9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 08 Apr 2022 05:05:32 -0500 Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nclSf-000lC1-0j for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 08 Apr 2022 05:05:31 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:Message-ID:Date:Subject: From:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=/FKx9ZJqQdO6ssiozQz+q1GAzqN8/sJlzU8/S+ql8O8=; b=WY0Bsr0VlLNOFs1GLRFuQjy9Rl qqjqZKkXSRrSLIJMg0Ohuahio8eX2bxzXFyiAzLobLW7v2UvxofUXYJh6B9kowyurG6xE7iN0B7nD kwFDe27JwcsUfG5txBpi9FeWKpUAeRlhzo4Lt4GotlBlHhtYwzisimNlH6oiwIxrE6y4=; Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nclSW-0001IN-2f for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2022 12:03:19 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nclSU-0006oa-8R for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2022 12:03:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: ding@gnus.org From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: set up Gnus to work with a remote system mailserver (with Dovecot?) Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:03:09 +0100 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <87fsmnnb8i.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87fsmp1yk9.fsf@zoho.eu> <8735ipqnrw.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <878rshyypw.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87mtgwkfod.fsf@hope.eyrie.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LS6lRORiDGVC3qo6u4xVyHwIW1g= X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ List-ID: Precedence: bulk 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. -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.3