[plug] need to upgrade? -was Re: [plug] kmail and the gigasecond bug

Greg Mildenhall assassin at live.wasp.net.au
Mon Sep 10 13:58:58 WST 2001


On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:25:45PM +0800, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> With the additional feature that it can read and write Maildir folders,
> as used by the qmail MTA. (Last time I looked getting pine to do this
> required an unsupported source patch.) Maildir has no locking required
> at all.  As many clients as you want can read and write the same folder.
> That's handy as I leave mutt at work going continuously and then can
> access the same mail from home.  One of the things I didn't like about
> pine was the message that went something like "Another session is
> accessing your mail, this session is now read-only", caused by the
> requirement for folder locking when using mbox format.

Or alternately: man screen

-Greg




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