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 ?
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2002-07-10 6:15 ` Robin S. Socha
2002-07-10 7:58 ` Reiner Steib
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[not found] ` <ilubs9fv4sq.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
2002-07-10 19:17 ` Erwan David
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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]
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[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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