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Re: fetching mails in batch mode
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Andrea Russo |
Subject: |
Re: fetching mails in batch mode |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:34:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> 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.
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