From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Damien Wyart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs mailreader that doesn't move the spool Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 07:33:06 +0200 Organization: Serveur de News Free Message-ID: <52675f92$0$2061$426a74cc@news.free.fr> References: <5266cc94$0$9750$c3e8da3$aae71a0a@news.astraweb.com> <5266f349$0$3720$426a74cc@news.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382506513 20627 80.91.229.3 (23 Oct 2013 05:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:35:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 23 07:35:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VYr6D-0005vy-Mx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 07:35:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYr6D-0003Vq-47 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:35:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.15.43.197 with SMTP id x45mr6086022eev.1.1382506386517; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:33:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!z12no219892wia.0!news-out.google.com!ed8ni329784wic.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed1-a.proxad.net!nnrp1-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Oct 2013 07:33:06 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.41.244.197 Original-X-Trace: 1382506386 news-2.free.fr 2061 213.41.244.197:40056 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201891 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94161 Archived-At: > > I've gone over the documentation for RMAIL, VM, and Gnus, and they > > all seem to require moving your mailbox to the home directory, > > apparently because none of them can lock the mailbox for exclusive > > access. Emacs seems powerful enough that a kludge could probably be > > written that puts your mailbox back the way it was every time you > > close your mailreader, but that seems sort of ugly and unnecessary. * Damien Wyart in gnu.emacs.help: > Even if what you want is not strictly possible (as far as I know), > I see two ways of having a setup where mail would be readable by > several MUAs: > - having procmail or maildrop (I prefer the latter) put the mail in > a target your like (more convenient in $HOME but not mandatory), > either in mbox or maildir, and than point Gnus and Emacs to it (mutt > will read a Gnus nnml fine, but doing modifications might not work > well). I've thought about a third way (not very elegant): Have procmail or maildrop (or your MDA) deliver all your incoming messages to two (or more!) spool files. That way, you could do what you want with each MUA (even deleting messages without impacting the others), but that's not very nice in terms of disk space and still doesn't allow sharing (modifications on one spool will not been visible on the other one). IMAP (installing dovecot locally, for example) seems to be a better option. -- DW