From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3940 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus5, procmail, and reading mail lists. Date: 13 Nov 1995 14:21:11 -0800 Organization: Miranova Systems, Inc. Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144758 28029 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:12:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:12:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA13895 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:01:51 -0800 Original-Received: from miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 23:21:20 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA13543; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 14:21:12 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ In-Reply-To: Joe Hildebrand's message of 13 Nov 1995 12:16:19 -0800 Original-Lines: 15 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.12 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3940 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3940 >>>>> "Joe" == Joe Hildebrand writes: mb> So, how do Gnus / procmail exist, esp. with regard to mb> lockfiles? Joe> fine. gnus uses movemail, which does locking. I have this Joe> at the top of my .procmailrc, though: # use lockfiles that Emacs movemail honours... otherwise you may lose mail LOCKEXT=+ I thought movemail *did* use .lock for an extension. At least that's what the XEmacs sources seem to imply. -- steve@miranova.com baur