From: Pascal Bourguignon <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com>
Subject: Re: modifying movemail
Date: 20 Jun 2004 07:32:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87smcq6bhr.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3r7sb5fqg.fsf@uboot.com
Florian von Savigny <florian265@uboot.com> writes:
> Sounds like this intermediate file is the second argument to movemail.
Indeed.
> What makes me wonder now is: is the fact alone that emacs under Linux
> hangs when trying to rmail-get-new-mail from a spool file on a FAT32
> partition enough proof that it is using movemail? After all, it might
> hang when executing its lisp code, and modifying movemail would not
> change a bit about that...
It's possible. It would be trying to lock it itself.
> [I'll spare the theoretical question: under what circumstances and why
> Emacs (does not) use(s) movemail.]
M-x apropos RET movemail RET
may give some clues...
I guess that if all the variables are nil, it won't be able to use an
external program.
--
__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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-20 5:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-19 10:27 modifying movemail Florian von Savigny
2004-06-19 17:39 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-06-19 21:54 ` Florian von Savigny
2004-06-19 22:10 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-06-19 22:45 ` Florian von Savigny
2004-06-20 5:32 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2004-06-19 22:28 ` Florian von Savigny
2004-06-20 5:42 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-06-20 10:13 ` Florian von Savigny
2004-06-20 10:46 ` poor man's movemail Florian von Savigny
2004-06-21 13:26 ` modifying movemail Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-07-01 10:17 ` Kai Grossjohann
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