From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
Subject: Re: Request for "maildir" support
Date: 05 Mar 1996 21:17:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x6bumczeje.fsf@eyesore.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hallvard B Furuseth's message of Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:25:28 +0100
Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
> > Fifth, the program _\bN_\bF_\bS_\b-_\bw_\br_\bi_\bt_\be_\bs the mes-
> > sage to the file.
> >
> > If the file is Huge, and Gnus starts reading/moving this file before
> > it has arrived totally, won't this potentially mean that Gnus might
> > get an incomplete version of the file.
>
> No. Note that the file is written to tmp/. Only when it's complete is
> it linked into new/.
Whoops. My eyes kinda skidded past item six there.
So it would seem that the maildir format is OK. Making the mail
backends understand its format should be no problem. I've added this
to the Red Gnus todo list.
--
"Yes. The journey through the human heart
would have to wait until some other time."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-03-05 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-03-04 13:47 Thomas Neumann
1996-03-04 15:21 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1996-03-04 16:56 ` eichin
1996-03-04 19:44 ` Thomas Neumann
1996-03-04 19:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-04 20:25 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-03-05 20:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1996-03-05 21:46 ` Mike Williams
1996-03-04 21:00 ` eichin
[not found] <199603042102.NAA27025@cygnus.com>
1996-03-04 21:11 ` eichin
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