Hi, On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 05:42:29AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:18:29 +0900 > From: Osamu Aoki <osamu_aoki_h...@nifty.com> > > ??? Why bother with qpopper. It is a local mbox. > > Ideally the one mbox should work, but I'm not sure that the MUA and > getmail will each respect access by the other. qpopper will respect > getmail in access to the mbox and respond to the MUA with POP3. This > at the cost of a second mbox and delays up to the retrieval interval > of qpopper.
I see. If qpopper can do it via locking why not make your local MUA to do the same. maildrop package comes with lockmail for such need. (I suspect procmail comes with similar util.) You just have to use such thing. Also, use of maildir format instead of mbox avoids locking issue. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140125160844.GB23831@goofy
