Thanks for the help from those who have assisted.
I've not used maildir2mbox in the past; I know it "does not protect
against simultanous access by another maildir2mbox" (from maildir(5))
but is it safe to use over NFS?
Thanks again,
kw
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Keith Warno [h]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || [w]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 2000-11-16 at 15:17 -0500, Scott Gifford uttered:
| Keith Warno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > One one my lusers insists on using emacs rmail for reading mail. I'm
| > not an emacs user so I don't know a lick about it, but I do know it
| > doesn't talk to the Maildir format. It wants mbox format.
|
| Three comments:
|
| 1. GNUS, another EMACS mail/news reader, has no problem with Maildir.
| They might want to just use that.
|
| 2. Searching around briefly, I see a message that rmail users can use
| 'maildir2mbox' to convert their Maildir into standard mbox format.
| rmail can be configured to run a program to check new mail, and if
| you set up a script that runs maildir2mbox in an appropriate way,
| then have it run that when it's checking mail, it should just work.
|
| See:
|
| http://lists.omnipotent.net/qmail/199707/msg00111.html
|
| 3. You might want to search around and see if there is a newer version
| of rmail than the one they're using, which perhaps supports Maildir
| natively.
|
| Hope this is helpful,
|
| ------ScottG.
|
|
