Aaron Schrab proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>At 15:40 -0400 19 Jul 2000, Michael Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hey guys. I noticed that mutt creates .lock files while reading from
>> mailboxes, as it should. At work here, we have some project accounts where
>> multiple users are managing mail. I'm wondering about mutt's capabilities in
>> this area, with respect to multiple users accessing the same mailboxes from
>> the same account.
>> I don't see anything in particular mentioned on this in the manual, so if
>> someone could summarize it's multi-user features, that'd be great.
>
>Mutt doesn't have any features specifically to allow multiple people to
>use a mailbox. As you noted, it does lock the mailbox (through .lock
>files and/or kernel locks); this is to prevent mutt and the MDA (message
You are much better off using maildir or MH folders for this - you won't
need locking and such there.
Here at Juno's abuse desk, we have five people working on a set of MH
folders, each of which contains several hundred mails.
-suresh
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Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Sometimes I simply feel that the whole world is a cigarette and I'm
the only ashtray."
