From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: movemail on Debian
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 17:59:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rzqhe7peeq2.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19ClM5-0007HI-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 05 May 2003 15:10:29 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I'd rather leave it to the movemail maintainer or someone else. [It
> still needs re-writing so the locking mechanism is selectable at
> runtime, as discussed some time ago, which is the reason I don't use
> it.]
>
> I don't know if anyone else will do it. A run-time decision is the
> right thing, but your change would be better than nothing. So could
> you adapt it to the trunk and install it, please?
I've done this, with a heavy heart, but I still don't know for sure
it's right.
> Someone else can always improve it later, if we find someone to do it.
Why isn't movemail maintained with, or integrated into, mailutils? It
would presumably be a trivial job to assemble it from mailutils
components, and then would get things like APOP support automatically
(currently missing and what I need to fetch mail from GNU, for
instance).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-20 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <rzqissx2xrl.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk>
2003-04-30 5:43 ` movemail on Debian Richard Stallman
2003-04-30 17:59 ` Dave Love
2003-05-02 14:37 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-03 14:25 ` Dave Love
2003-05-04 13:04 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-04 18:05 ` Dave Love
2003-05-05 19:10 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-20 16:59 ` Dave Love [this message]
2003-05-21 15:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-25 15:31 ` Dave Love
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