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From: William G Gardella <wgg2@member.fsf.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs mailreader that doesn't move the spool
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:40:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc0l7szv.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zjpx7tuf.fsf@motoko.kusanagi

William G Gardella <wgg2@member.fsf.org> writes:

[...]

>
> Of course, this setup might or might not make sense for your
> requirements.  You may have some reason to prefer mbox, but consider
> also that many contemporary MTAs such as Postfix are happy to deliver
> directly to a maildir in $HOME, possibly without the help of an MDA
> helper like procmail.

Another thought: I notice you have an SDF account, so perhaps your mail
is on a shell server where others have configured the MTA for you.  Even
in that case, I think a procmail configuration like mine should be quite
suitable, because MTAs typically call procmail or another MDA like
maildrop at the end of delivery, if the user has a ~/.forward or
~/.procmailrc.

--
Best,
WGG




      reply	other threads:[~2013-10-25  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-22 19:05 Emacs mailreader that doesn't move the spool Hikaru Ichijyo
2013-10-22 20:17 ` Gregory Benjamin
2013-10-22 22:07   ` Jude DaShiell
2013-10-22 21:51 ` Damien Wyart
2013-10-23  5:33   ` Damien Wyart
2013-10-23 19:40   ` Joost Kremers
2013-10-22 22:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-23 19:19 ` Jonathan Groll
     [not found] ` <mailman.4561.1382555797.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-23 22:02   ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2013-10-25  6:22     ` William G Gardella
2013-10-25  6:40       ` William G Gardella [this message]

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