Hal DeVore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>Another factor affecting this is the mail reader you use and how it
>interacts with the stored sequences. I use exmh for 90% of my email and
>exmh doesn't rewrite the sequences after every mail item but only when I
>either commit changes or change to a different folder (more details I
>don't recall). This reduces the window of failure to those points where
>I'm doing those two actions.
Depending on how exmh internally keeps track of the changes to be made,
this could be worse: if it just caches the sequences and delays writing
them back out till you commit or leave, that creates a _huge_ window
wherein changes by rcvstore will be lost. On the other hand, if it
instead remembers "remove 56, 57, 58 from sequence foo and add 104 and
245 to it", then rereads the sequences file, applies the changes, and
writes it back out, then this will indeed minimize the window of
danger. The details on this may be infernal residences.
Philip Guenther
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