[17317] in Athena Bugs
Re: netscape eats mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Oct 27 11:11:10 1999
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:09:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>
cc: bugs@mit.edu
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I knew it was just a wrapper script. I was hoping to add a quota check to
the wrapper, rather than try to find an alternate method of doing the
inbox move itself.
On the other hand, I don't know anything about pmail. If pmail is
something that's prone to problems in the first place, then maybe we
SHOULD try a better method.
-todd
On 26 Oct 1999, Jacob Morzinski wrote:
> <daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (t. belton) writes:
> > That said, I have never looked inside netscape-movemail and I don't know
> > if we can modify it to make it a little more bulletproof, but I agree that
>
> Last time I looked, the thing known as "netscape-movemail" was
> simply a wrapper script around sipb's pmail. It is not
> bulletproof, and I discovered recently that it _will_ bitbucket
> mail if you invoke it repeatedly while you're over quota.
>
> Adapting emacs's movemail seems like the right approach. Working
> out something with fetchmail might be another route.
>
> -Jacob
>
