From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7606 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Russo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: fetching mails in batch mode Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:34:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87fyhmmlhj.fsf@onosendai.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151701818 32018 80.91.229.2 (30 Jun 2006 21:10:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:10:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 30 23:10:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwQFb-0004H8-7q for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:10:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwQFa-0004k5-JW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FwQFQ-0004eE-2l for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:09:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FwQFO-0004dB-9C for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:09:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwQFO-0004d8-3R for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FwQSE-0008IT-VI for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:23:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FwQFK-0004Ds-J2 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:09:50 +0200 Original-Received: from d83-184-208-188.cust.tele2.it ([83.184.208.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:09:50 +0200 Original-Received: from rastandy by d83-184-208-188.cust.tele2.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:09:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: d83-184-208-188.cust.tele2.it Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA CXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwYAAAAB3RJTUUH1QsYEAwXXxoA5gAAAB10RVh0Q29tbWVudABDcmVh dGVkIHdpdGggVGhlIEdJTVDvZCVuAAAAo0lEQVQY01XQsQ3DMAwEwCdYsNQG1hopDHillO6s0TRC RtAILFKoMKyQjIIkbA4QniD0GDEYo+cA5JzAYSiQjQqIUQA20C2DkyzjXBZFdzYokm2gIZVAij1U cIE49Utx2JD2hxpAUpBzf7MHy+QWrGssfFiC/YeKPcU9nYjRSKUkKDUp2eFHRufGfcPJlfuBiys5 doO+n54VzEJmPbOs8dwCnxf4QW3vEcuy1AAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CnrRe/0onuDxO7V57SVbf8c1b5w= X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7606 Archived-At: Phillip Lord writes: > It will all go horrible wrong if you do this. If you are already > running an Emacs, I presume that you want to read in batch because > emacs hangs while reading? Yes, although I actually use fetchmail for mails and leafnode for news. But I'm searching for a solution where I can't manage to have these tools installed. > In which case, you might want to use the gnus-demon instead which > will read in the idle cycle. But it'll anyway stop emacs from accepting user input. > You might also want to look at the nnmaildir backend which is > supposed to cope with concurrent modification. Never tried it, > although I mean to at some time. Interesting. I use it with a remote path (`/user@host:/etc..../'). Is this property of coping with concurrency valid also for the corresponding gnus backend nnmaildir? Thanks for your help, Andrea. -- `To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems' --Homer J. Simpson