Re: Filters with multiple copies of pine running
Ryan Barrett <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Ross wrote: > As long as the INBOX contains the message, though it may be marked as > deleted or in any fashion, both copies of Pine will read (& probably cache) > the message. Any filter will then process the message accordingly. So if > both copies of Pine process the message with the same designed filter, two > copies of the message will be processed accordingly, & the receiving folder > will end up with two copies of the same message. this is what transactions are for. if filtering is transactional, only one instance of pine will perform a given filter. after that, the message will be moved or changed such that it won't trigger the filter in the other instance. having said that, i doubt IMAP allows arbitrary transactions. pine does obey a mailbox locking protocol, but i suspect that's unrelated. still, it's an entirely reasonable question. does anyone know of any workarounds or preventive measures? -Ryan -- http://snarfed.org/ _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info