On Sunday 04 April 2004 11:17, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Saturday 03 April 2004 21:36, Georg Sauthoff wrote: > > On Saturday 03 April 2004 18:44, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > > Am Saturday 03 April 2004 12:00 schrieb Mauro Darida: > > > > I was a fan of kmail but left it for mutt since it does not work well > > > > with procmail (it requires to make additional copies of mail > > > > directories to work with procmail, which is simply nonsense to me). > > > > Just wondering if in kde 3.2 the situation has changed. I am using a > > > > backport kde 3.1.2 on woody. > > > > Alternatively, is there another qt based mua which fully supports > > > > procmail and both maildir/mailbox format? > > > How do expect this to work? You then must make proper use of file > > > locking and I doubt that using mbox would work at all in this case (two > > > programs writing to the same file at the same time!). > > hm, kmail could implement file locking mechanisms like mutt or other mua > > do it. I think this is the intention of the above question. > There is a "procmail lockfile" option in KMail when adding a local mailbox > (Network->receiving) Yes, for the nonsense case described by Mauri Darida above (make additional copies ...). But, you can't configure this: Kmail should use a new mailbox 'foo', but the MDA procmail, which uses a specified locking mechanism delivers mail to it. Kmail shouldn't damage the mailbox and refresh the GUI if new mail arrives. Regards Georg Sauthoff
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