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From: Andrea Russo <rastandy@salug.it>
Subject: Re: fetching mails in batch mode
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:33:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hd1yycyz.fsf@onosendai.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ulkrbnikz.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk>

Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> writes:

> I was talking about the nnmaildir backend. I don't know about remote
> usage. As I said, I've never actually tried it. But if it can cope
> with concurrency, I presume it's not using locking which is hard to
> get to work, but is just robust. It should work remotely.

Right.  This is also explained in the manual:

,----[ (info "(gnus)Mail Source Specifiers") ]
| 
|           You can also get mails from remote hosts (because maildirs
|           don't suffer from locking problems).
`----

Thanks for your help,
Andrea.

-- 
four five, how to stay alive
six seven, go to hell or go to heaven!
-- Roy Batty

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-03 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3565.1151676931.9609.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2006-06-30 14:54 ` Phillip Lord
2006-06-30 20:34   ` Andrea Russo
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3590.1151701797.9609.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2006-07-03  9:28     ` Phillip Lord
2006-07-03 14:33       ` Andrea Russo [this message]
2006-06-30 13:32 Andrea Russo
2006-06-30 15:42 ` Andrea Russo

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