Re: fetching mails in batch mode

[Andrea Russo]

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.

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