From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/760 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Erwan David Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: mutt vs gnus Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:33:54 +0200 Organization: Guest of Firstream - Teaser - Oreka Message-ID: <87adoxechp.fsf@bretagne.rail.eu.org> References: <87d6txjz6j.fsf@westminster.societyofno.com> <878z4ke57g.fsf@happy.sherilyn.org.uk> <877kk4xhe3.fsf@bretagne.rail.eu.org> <85y9cjkd3s.fsf@bretagne.rail.eu.org> <87n0szcs09.fsf@bretagne.rail.eu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667684 8297 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:34:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:04 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!teaser.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bretagne.rail.eu.org Original-X-Trace: feed.teaser.net 1026452035 65276 80.65.225.51 (12 Jul 2002 05:33:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@teaser.fr Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 05:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter, i686-pc-linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZNwleWZogqf/CXkxfuBrxf20jUM= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:900 Original-Lines: 19 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 900 Tue Jan 17 17:28:04 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:760 Archived-At: Benjamin Rutt 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 men on their lawn." -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)