RemoteNB 1.06 & Lockfiles

[Richard van der Hoff]

In message <2b3b8a8549.tom at compton.compton.nu>
          Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> In message <a0b52d8549.rav21 at wallace.mk-net.demon.co.uk>
>           Richard van der Hoff <rav21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I note you've been fixing your lock-handling code.  Indeed, the inbox does
> > seem to get locked, which I guess is a Good Thing.  It does mean, however,
> > that, when I choose to read my mail via Pine, it can't get write access to
> > my inbox.  I'm not sure if that's a huge problem, but how viable would it
> > be to unlock the mailbox when you're not scanning it?
> 
> I removed the change that I originally made for you which ensured
> that folders were opened for read most of the time because I had
> put in proper support for the UW IMAP server's lock stealing so
> that RemoteNB will now reopen the connection when it closes because
> another program steals the lock.

Ah, yes, that's nice.

> Are you saying that Pine isn't managing the steal the lock?

Yes.

> That seems very odd... Are you using Pine to access you mailbox via IMAP
> or by direct access to the folders on local disk?

Direct access; but I've just tried it with IMAP, and the effect seems the
same.  Even if I log out of RemoteNB and try to run two pine sessions, the
second doesn't steal the lock so I guess it's not RemoteNB's fault. I've
had a read of Pine's docs, and it certainly looks like it _should_ be able
to steal the lock, and I'm certain it _used_ to work.  I'll have to chase
this elsewhere... - sorry for blaming RemoteNB!

> > I'm looking forward to your message-fetches-during-a-scan code...
> 
> I'm running a test version of it right now ;-)

good good :-)

Richard

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