From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31746 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexandre Oliva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus Access mail spool by ssh Date: 11 Jul 2000 19:28:37 -0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168122 15866 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:42:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:42:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E52D051E for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:33:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAC02968; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:29:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:28:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA25541 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:28:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br [143.106.24.130]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8C9D051F for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:28:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (IDENT:aoliva@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA14656; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:28:37 -0300 Original-To: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "11 Jul 2000 05:39:10 -0700" Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31746 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31746 On Jul 11, 2000, Harry Putnam 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