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: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:51:04 +0200 Organization: Serveur de News Free Message-ID: <5266f349$0$3720$426a74cc@news.free.fr> References: <5266cc94$0$9750$c3e8da3$aae71a0a@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382478915 389 80.91.229.3 (22 Oct 2013 21:55:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:55:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 22 23:55:19 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 1VYjv4-0000G2-Ci for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:55:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYjv3-0003t2-V5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:55:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp3-2.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: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Oct 2013 23:51:05 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.41.244.197 Original-X-Trace: 1382478665 news-2.free.fr 3720 213.41.244.197:60571 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201879 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:94149 Archived-At: * Hikaru Ichijyo in gnu.emacs.help: > 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. 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). - having a local IMAP server (cleaner solution I think) and use the IMAP layers of mutt and Gnus to access it. As IMAP is fully supported in the MUAs you quote, this is the safest and most flexible solution. Using an mbox spool for a shared access in not really optimal, IMAP was designed for shared access from the start. Best regards, -- DW