From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hikaru Ichijyo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs mailreader that doesn't move the spool Date: 23 Oct 2013 22:02:32 GMT Organization: UN Spacy Message-ID: <52684778$0$53732$c3e8da3$14a0410e@news.astraweb.com> References: <5266cc94$0$9750$c3e8da3$aae71a0a@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382565914 7308 80.91.229.3 (23 Oct 2013 22:05:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:05:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 24 00:05:19 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 1VZ6YI-0000pX-WA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:05:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51585 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZ6YI-0006Ka-C8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:05:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/3.3.4 (x86_64)) Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 8016640a.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=kSNli]DUZ2l9B_G1R=S=7j0ib>HdYUo26e^?9Z0mn<49NaJ7 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201912 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:94182 Archived-At: Jonathan Groll wrote: > Yes, it is possible - I read my mail via a local IMAP server > (dovecot). I don't do anything special and leave the mail as the > default mbox. I can switch between mutt and Emacs, if I want to (but > have never tried them both at the same time because of mbox > contention). To be explicit, in my case, mutt isn't configured to read > via IMAP but Emacs is, and the mail is in /var/spool/mail > > Of course, an advantage to using an IMAP server is it means you can > sometimes use one mail client and sometimes use another, which seems > to be something you like to do. Yes, I already have an IMAP daemon setup for users, so I could use it locally also. Well...I suppose I could consider it a wishlist request for VM and/or Gnus then: It would be nice if they could do in-place file locking of the system mail spool, like Mutt and Alpine do. Maybe in a future version? :) -- He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. --Thomas Paine