gnus with maildir

gnus with maildir

[Emabela]

Hello,

 

I guess many of you use gnus.

I could not find in the documentation the following.

Is it possible to use gnus on a maildir and

another email client on the same maildir simultaneously?

How does it work with huge maildirs?

(with several thousand files-messages?)



(I plan to switch to gnus but first I check some things,

so excuse me if it is too trivial.)

 

Thanks in advance.



Regards,

B.



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Re: gnus with maildir

[Xavier Maillard]

   From: "Emabela" <emabela@vipmail.hu>
   I guess many of you use gnus.

Yes but I stopped using it for mails prefering something more
« natural » to me: rmail.

   Is it possible to use gnus on a maildir and

Sure.

   another email client on the same maildir simultaneously?

What do you mean ? Using it at the same time or changing from
time to time ?

   How does it work with huge maildirs?

Dunno

Xavier

Re: gnus with maildir

[Henrik Enberg]

> I could not find in the documentation the following.  Is it possible
> to use gnus on a maildir and another email client on the same maildir
> simultaneously?

No, Gnus uses a really gross, non-standard way to deal with the maildir
format.  It's not compatible with anything else.  I recommend staying
away from maildirs with Gnus.

Re: gnus with maildir

[Emabela]

Thank you for your replies.



And, now, as for rmail, does it support maildirs?

How does it work with large mboxes/maildirs?



Again, thank you for your help.



Regards,

B.



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Téma: Re: gnus with maildir



> I could not find in the documentation the following.  Is it possible



> to use gnus on a maildir and another email client on the same maildir



> simultaneously?







No, Gnus uses a really gross, non-standard way to deal with the maildir



format.  It's not compatible with anything else.  I recommend staying



away from maildirs with Gnus.











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Re: gnus with maildir

[Ian Zimmerman]

Emabela> Is it possible to use gnus on a maildir and
Emabela> another email client on the same maildir simultaneously?
Emabela> How does it work with huge maildirs?

You can set up a local imap server (that understands maildirs, such as
courier) and then use the nnimap backend in Gnus.  I have done that and
it works reasonably well, but I am not married to djb so I saw no
advantage to maildirs compared to mbox spool files and nnml in Gnus.

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