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From: Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>
Subject: Re: mutt vs gnus
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:33:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87adoxechp.fsf@bretagne.rail.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wc34rf6ot7u.fsf@eta.cis.ohio-state.edu>

Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

> But even if these operations were available, you would need to make
> sure that emacs and all mail servers (I'll say mail servers here b/c I
> don't really understand the difference between MTA/MDA) lock the same
> bytes of the same file with the same flags.  This is called advisory
> locking, and there's no guarantee all programs will cooperate, if the
> programs come from different parties.

When emacs takes mail from an incoming spool how does it operate ?
Why would the locking mechanism used at this part be useless for
*working* syncing those mailboxes ?

-- 
"Chain letters," said the Tyrant. "The Chain Letter to the Ephebians.
Forget Your Gods. Be Subjugated. Learn to Fear. Do not break the chain --
the last people who did woke up one morning to find fifty thousand armed
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        -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-12  5:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87d6txjz6j.fsf@westminster.societyofno.com>
     [not found] ` <878z4ke57g.fsf@happy.sherilyn.org.uk>
     [not found]   ` <877kk4xhe3.fsf@bretagne.rail.eu.org>
2002-07-10  6:15     ` Robin S. Socha
2002-07-10  7:58     ` Reiner Steib
     [not found]       ` <85y9cjkd3s.fsf@bretagne.rail.eu.org>
     [not found]         ` <ilubs9fv4sq.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
2002-07-10 19:17           ` Erwan David
     [not found]             ` <iluofdfv01a.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
2002-07-11 22:37               ` Movemail, nnmail (was mutt vs gnus) Sherilyn
     [not found]               ` <wc34rf6ot7u.fsf@eta.cis.ohio-state.edu>
2002-07-12  5:33                 ` Erwan David [this message]
     [not found]       ` <85lm8jkcrg.fsf@brehat.trusted-logic.fr>
     [not found]         ` <vafn0svriyv.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
2002-07-13 15:20           ` mutt vs gnus Erwan David
2002-07-13 17:04             ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-13 17:15               ` Erwan David
     [not found]     ` <87vg7o3qx5.fsf@happy.sherilyn.org.uk>
2002-07-10  9:04       ` Sherilyn

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