Re: gnus losing mail?
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> writes:
> gnus seems to have this odd habit of at least appearing not to handle
> incoming mail very well. It warns that the mailbox was changed on
> disk out from under emacs and asks if I really want to save my
> changes. If I say no, I can't leave the group. If I say yes, I have
> this unsure feeling that I could be missing mail.
>
> So is gnus doing the right thing, or am I losing mail by saving?
Well, with gnus it's better to make mail source and mail storage
different, that to not put new mail directly into the gnus mbox (or
whatever you tell gnus to use) but into another file where gnus will go
fetch it before putting it into its mbox.
--
Rémi Vanicat
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