From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: modifying movemail Date: 20 Jun 2004 07:42:14 +0200 Organization: [posted via Easynet Spain] Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87oene6b0p.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: <87d63vwip2.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088536968 21805 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:22:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:22:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:22:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfOBo-00066O-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:22:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfODU-0004Bu-5l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:24:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!easynet-monga!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=8YWFg[Z_Jj9bGM]jA8?j4=_51]<;N?4W1bBd4DjF1d]1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123845 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19202 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19202 Florian von Savigny writes: > So what to do? Is the little script Pascal has supplied in fact a > functional replacement for movemail, which only has to be put in its > place to work (or do I only have to apply the modification I have > explained)? > > I am wondering why this is all so complex. movemail can be complex because the locking mechanisms are not very standardized, there are several of them, and they don't work on all the file systems. See for example the problem you have with FAT! My script won't work 100% of the time. It may work correctly 80% or never or anything betweek 0% and 100%. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein