Re: VM problem

[Immanuel Yap <noelyap@ascus.cit.cornell.edu>]

On Wed Feb 10, 1999, Daniel Elenius wrote:
> I have a problem with the VM mail reader that has been annoying me for 
> a LONG time. I use an exim filter to put e.g. the debian-user mail in
> a ~/mail/debian folder. Then when I open this folder, there will
> usually be new mail coming into the folder while I read it. That makes 
> it impossible to save the folder after I've finished reading since
> it's "changed on disk". Can this be solved, perhaps by telling exim to 
> keep the mail on the queue if the folder is open (lockfiles or
> something)?

You need to tell exim to filter into a separate SPOOL file, then get
VM to read from the SPOOL.  This URL:

    http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~smikes/emacs/vm-procmail.html

explains the process for procmail, but is applicable for exim, too.

Noel