On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:15:44PM +0000, Tony's unattended mail wrote: > Due to a bug in mutt, I will begin using gnus for some things > (e.g. self-signed S/MIME certs). The question is, can mutt and gnus > both be used to access the same set of mbox files? > > Are there any unhandled race-condition-like pitfalls with having both > tools work on mbox files simultaneously?
there are so many versions and locking options of both mutt and gnus that nobody will be able to answer that questions without a very thorough look at your OS and configuration. In practice both try to do correct locking so you could be lucky. More serious question - do they even use the same mbox format? Some time in the past gnus used some special format. Mutt is famous for beeing able to use pretty much every format but I would double check this. Richard --- Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers
