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I used to use pine, but decided I wanted to use an email client with a GIO, so
I switched to exmh.
exmh is serving me well, but I thought I'd like o try others; I have other
accounts, so trying one is not big deal.
However, I have a concern. It seems to me that procmail's mailbox locking is
designed purely for preventing procmail from running over itself when here are
two deliveries for the same folder.
Appending to a flat file, such as pine uses, would be fine IF the users' MUA
wasn't going to change its length. However, I have noted that some email
clients DO update the contents of the file containing mail, and do i in a
manner that changes its size without removing or adding mail. Pine and Emacs'
vm reader both add some control information to the start of the file, and I
suspect lots of clients do private things with Status: headers.
So the question is, which email clients play nice with procmail? I know exmh
(and, I presume other mh/nmh-based email client software too, as
well-configured procmail only writes wone file to an mh folder at a time, and
there's a delivery program to handle private mh/nmh things). Are there others?
I'm very doubtful of pine, kmail, netscape (I could get round the headers, I
think) and StarOffice (SO on the principle it comes from outside Linux/Unix;
I've not actually explored it).
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