From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11445 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Graham Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: saving to nnml groups Date: 23 Jun 1997 10:56:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <873eresl3p.fsf@perv.daft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151152 30307 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:59:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:59:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00393 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:18:05 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA04011 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:15:25 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA27638 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:14:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 16:56:19 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 6430 invoked by uid 504); 23 Jun 1997 14:56:17 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6427 invoked from network); 23 Jun 1997 14:56:17 -0000 Original-Received: from urth.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@128.205.7.9) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 23 Jun 1997 14:56:17 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20528 invoked by uid 305); 23 Jun 1997 14:56:15 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 17 Jun 1997 18:02:27 +0200 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.55/XEmacs 19.15 Original-Lines: 25 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1835 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11445 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11445 i have been unclear. i want to have mail work like news. i used to use mh but it got too slow as my mailbox grew but i still like to use *some* mh tools (read-only) but i need an overview database so i want nnml not nnmh. however moving mail from inbox to mailgroup is too slow when batched. so ... i want mail to be like news. i took the perl program for async mail movement and changed it somewhat and added the code to nnheader to lock the *active* file (i still get to odd note about the overview file changing). is the right answer to have another method similar to nnml but aware that something else (the mail equivalent of inews) is updating the overview database and the active file? larsi> [modifications to `nnheader-temp-write' deleted.] larsi> Well, that function isn't used much to write mail files, so larsi> making it lock doesn't hurt, but it doesn't help either. -- paul pjg@acsu.Buffalo.EDU |public keys at: | http://urth.acsu.Buffalo.EDU/~pjg/key.html if the above contains opinions they are mine unless marked otherwise.