Re: saving to nnml groups

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Paul Graham <pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu> writes:

> i really wish gnus would grow the hooks needed to do clean external mail
> processing.  i use procmail to deposit mail in my nnml directories because
> it's currently inconvenient to leave gnus running all the time and the
> inrush of mail in the morning (300-1000 messages) is far too slow on my
> little SS20.  i've modified the external async mail filer (i can't recall
> the URL) and nnheader to do some common locking but neither emacs (in terms
> of kernel level support) or gnus (architecturally) seem interested in
> sharing access to objects like the active file and overview files.  i think
> the only common problem is access to the overview database during ``B del''
> but it seems to resolve itself properly.

I don't think Gnus is ever going to be able to do these kinds of
things.  It's just too much work.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen