On Wed Feb 10, 1999, Daniel Elenius wrote: > I have a problem with the VM mail reader that has been annoying me for > a LONG time. I use an exim filter to put e.g. the debian-user mail in > a ~/mail/debian folder. Then when I open this folder, there will > usually be new mail coming into the folder while I read it. That makes > it impossible to save the folder after I've finished reading since > it's "changed on disk". Can this be solved, perhaps by telling exim to > keep the mail on the queue if the folder is open (lockfiles or > something)?
You need to tell exim to filter into a separate SPOOL file, then get VM to read from the SPOOL. This URL: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~smikes/emacs/vm-procmail.html explains the process for procmail, but is applicable for exim, too. Noel