At 14 May 2002 23:05:02 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 21:56, Timothy Bateman wrote: > > I want to find a solution so both Evolution and Pine can access the > > same mbox file so I can choose to use either interchangeably. Is this > > possible ?
it should Just Work. thats what mail locking is for. at worse, some temporal flags (like "read/unread") might get confused - but certainly no "mail box corruption". > I can think of two definite solutions I've tried. But you're probably > not going to like either of them. :-) > > Switch to Maildir. > I have all of my mail living in multiple Maildir mail folders. > Evolution handles Maildir much better than mbox - rather than having to > create a seperate account for each mbox, you can just point it at a set > of nested Maildirs, and it will read them all in and present them as a > tree of folders. Mutt also handles Maildir fine, and pine should as > well. on the downside, i found maildir to be quite a bit slower than mbox. i guess all those file opens are a lots more expensive (and foil kernel read ahead algorithms) than reading a single file. and i've never had a problem with multiple mbox access, even over nfs - thanks to debian's strict mail-locking policy (which spamassassin doesn't comply with (everybody glare at thom). haven't checked evolution yet) overall, unless you wish to optimise for the multiple reader case, i really don't see what all the fuss over maildir is. > <obPineSucks> > Pine has a very restrictive licence. In my opinion, it also doesn't > have the features and usefulness of something like mutt. And SLUG has a > loyal army of mutt users to help you over the bumpy getting-to-know-you > bits. Might be well worth switching. :-) > </obPineSucks> "very restrictive" is probably a little harsh, but yes - what he said. <obEmacs> personally, i've switch to wanderlust (brought to you by the japanese parallel free software universe) and it rocks - particularly with disconnected imap. (can't do mbox at all though, which is peculiar) -- - Gus.not.a.maildir.fan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
