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From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus Access mail spool by ssh
Date: 11 Jul 2000 19:28:37 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ork8es2tey.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "11 Jul 2000 05:39:10 -0700"

On Jul 11, 2000, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:

> $MOVEMAIL $MAIL $TMP >/dev/null && cat $TMP && rm -f $TMP

I've done that before, and I was bitten by it.  It happened that cat
finished and the file was removed but a significant part of my mailbox
was still in the network buffer, and the connection was broken before
it got to the other end.  Ever since, I've been using fetchmail, which
is far slower, but is quite safe.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva   Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat GCC Developer                  aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com}
CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp        oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist    *Please* write to mailing lists, not to me




  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-11 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-08 21:02 Harry Putnam
2000-07-08 23:08 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-07-09  2:03 ` Alan Shutko
2000-07-10  4:56   ` Harry Putnam
2000-07-10 11:48     ` Kai Großjohann
     [not found]     ` <lfllmzam504.fsf@rupert.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
2000-07-11 12:39       ` Harry Putnam
2000-07-11 22:28         ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
2000-07-12  0:01           ` Harry Putnam
2000-07-12  2:31             ` Alexandre Oliva
2000-07-12  8:06               ` Kai Großjohann
2000-07-12  8:52                 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2000-07-12 11:26                   ` Harry Putnam
2000-07-12 14:54                     ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2000-07-12 15:10                       ` Harry Putnam
2000-07-12 17:07                         ` Kai Großjohann
2000-07-12 19:22                       ` Harry Putnam
2000-07-12 19:42                         ` Alan Shutko
2000-07-12 21:28                           ` Harry Putnam
2000-07-13  3:50                             ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2000-07-13  3:46                         ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2000-07-14 11:02                           ` Harry Putnam
2000-07-16 15:11                             ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2000-07-15  0:29                   ` Simon Josefsson
2000-07-10 12:00 ` Nuutti Kotivuori

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