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[bug-mailutils] Re: movemail on Debian


From: Dave Love
Subject: [bug-mailutils] Re: movemail on Debian
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:30:35 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux)

"Alain Magloire" <address@hidden> writes:

> I would say, at this point in time, that both should have a version,

Right.

> (on the mailutils side, we will work in provide a version of movemail,
> probably the same code).

The current version has a number of deficiencies which I expect code
based on mailutils wouldn't have:

It has hardwired handling of spool locking, i.e. you can't reliably
use the same binary with spools that get deliveries from other
systems.  (I read an Irix spool from a Debian system.  It isn't clear
to me from the manual whether mailutils can handle that either yet,
but the Emacs movemail wasn't getting it right -- using liblockfile --
on Debian anyhow.)

I doesn't handle APOP and IMAP, at least.  (IMAP handling has been an
Emacs todo item for years.)

Many thanks if mailutils can provide a properly-maintained movemail.
I can explain further what issues I know about with the current
version if necessary.




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