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Ange-ftp and remote mailboxes

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From: kyle
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1992 14:53
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Janne Himanka writes:
 > I have concentrated my mail so that all my accounts forward incoming
 > mail to one machine. But I occasionally spend much time in other
 > machines, and thought it would be cool to be able to use vm and
 > ange-ftp to read mail across machines. Before I start making myself a
 > persona non grata among postmasters, I'd like to know if this can be
 > done safely and reliably. I'm using VM 5.31, soon 5.32, I believe.

Given that VM uses movemail to get mail out of the mail spool
(movemail does the file locking), linking it to ange-ftp will be
impossible, unless you move the locking inside of VM somehow.
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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 92 09:53:23 -0500
From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net
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Subject: Ange-ftp and remote mailboxes
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