> To answer your last question first: If only one Emacs machine will ever > be the client in this setup, and you are not using an external utility > like offlineimap or fetchmail directly on the mailbox, you could get > away with using nnml over TRAMP. The advantage of nnmaildir is that, > unlike MH-style mailboxes like nnml, the maildir layout is designed to > be suitable for non-locking use, i.e. reading mail even as another > program is putting stuff into the inbox. Therefore it's an excellent > choice for a mailbox hosted on a central server for multiple clients to > use.
OK, since it is indeed the case that only one emacs at a time will be client, I will stick with nnml. At least this has the advantage that I can simply copy the old mail archive then. I guess that one drawback of the whole setup will be that regexp-searching mail articles will become much slower, right? After all, emacs will have to fetch each message / file separately via ssh, check whether it matches... Well, I'll see... Many thanks for your help! Martin _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
