Is there a way to share folders between pine and evolution while filtering with procmail?
On 4 Dec 2001, Not Zed wrote: > Date: 04 Dec 2001 08:42:18 +1030 > From: Not Zed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Fred Chagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync > > On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 06:24, Fred Chagnon wrote: > > > An eaiser fix is to just remove the .ev-summary file in the folder, that > > > way you dont lose your messages at least. > > > > > > It happens because it tried to re-fresh the summary to match the folder, > > > but after doing that, it still didn't make sense. i.e. it tried to load > > > a message from a specific spot in the file, but the message wasn't > > > there. The summary is like an index of the mailbox contents, which > > > includes a 'summary' of each message (like subject, etc), as well as > > > (for mbox files) a pointer to the start of the message inside the mbox. > > > The error is basically when that pointer doesn't match the file. > > > > > > Is there anything that happens to start it happening? Like running out > > > of disk or something like that? There's a long-outstanding bug for this > > > one, but i haven't a clue how to fix it. > > > > > > Theoretically it should only happen if the mailbox is modified by > > > another client *while* evolution has the mailbox locked and does > > > processing on it. Or perhaps if you run out of disk space. It should > > > alos automatically repair itself when it can, but obviuosly this isn't > > > happening either. > > > > Thanks. This is very helpful. The problem actually hasn't happened in > > awhile. I've got 1.0 running now as well, so I'll hope that it's somehow > > disppeared for good. > > Ahh good, hopefully yes. > > > The folders shouldn't be open by any other applications. I use procmail > > to filter my mail into stand ~/mail/ folders which are all symlinked to > > ~/evolution/local/Inbox/subfolders/.. > > Uh, this actually IS the sort of problem I was talking about. If you do > this, you will definetly be accessing the folders with another > application while evolution is. But so long as procmail actually locks > the folders, it should be safe (if it doesn't, well you could lose > mail). > > You may want to investigate using 'maildir' as your mailbox format, with > that you can have pine and evolution point directly to the same tree > with no problems. > > Hopefully at some point we'll support having multiple subdirs with our > 'spool' type (its listed as 'mbox spool files' in the account creation > wizard), and then you should just be able to point evolution at your > pine files directly. Still, locking needs to be performed the same way > by procmail and evolution for this to work. > > > I need to do it this way so I have pine read out of ~/mail/ and access > > my mail remotely from a terminal. > > > > But the two mail clients are never running simultaneously. > > Yeah but procmail will write to the folders as mail arrives. > > > Anyway, I'll pay more attention to how it happens should it happen again > > and keep you posted. > > Cool. > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
