From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: Protect against servers stepping on each other's toes
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:42:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluzo6n5k1c.fsf@barbar.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3669bl2oy.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:49:59 -0400")
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
>> If I have two servers using the same directory, there is potential for
>> the two stepping on each other's toes.
>
> I think much of this could be prevented by using different defaults
> for different backends, or (like nnmaildir does) by requiring the user
> to explicitly specify a directory in the server parameters.
I agree, this would be a simpler solution. I'm using ~/Mail/nnml/,
~/Mail/nnml+foo/, ~/Mail/nnfolder+bar/ etc personally, but I guess it
would be difficult to make something like that the default now as it
would force people to reorganize their mail.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-19 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-19 21:35 Kai Großjohann
2001-10-19 21:49 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-19 22:37 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-19 22:46 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-20 11:00 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-20 6:48 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-10-20 11:03 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-20 21:49 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-10-20 22:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-22 5:35 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-22 16:54 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-10-22 20:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-19 22:42 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
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