Jeff is correct. You shouldn't lose any mail, but you might lose some flags or corrupt the indices or just make the two mailers thrash against each other. Making them multiprocess-writable would be a lot of work, even multiprocess one-writer/many-reader wouldn't be trivial.
There's nothing to stop you writing a command line client, you just shouldn't have them accessing the same folders at the same time (i.e. the processes running concurrently) as another process. Not sure if it'll need X to run though, it shouldn't (camel certainly doesnt' need it). I have no idea what the plans are, I know what i'd like to do, personally, but i dont think that's what will happen. A bunch of interfaces that talk 'email' to the mailer, but dont necessarily need it active to work (and visa versa, i.e. the mailer would continue to use native camel interfaces), would be a start, for example. On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 13:58, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 00:14, Russell Steinthal wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 18:28, Not Zed wrote: > > > Also note that camel can only be used by one application on the same > > > mail stores at a time. > > > > > > That is, you cannot use it to access the mailboxes while evolution-mail > > > is running, unless you are running within evolution-mail's process > > > context. > > > > If, as I assume is the case, locking is included in Camel, does this > > mean that there's no safe way to write a command line interface? (Since > > the interface couldn't use Camel outside of evolution-mail, and any > > non-Camel solution would be non-lock-safe.) > > > > I think the issue here he is not so much locking mbox files (camel > handles file locking, so it should be fine in that reguard) but the > problem that I think NotZed is talking about is confusion of the > index/summary files? > > Jeff > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers