Re: Filters with multiple copies of pine running

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Matt Ackeret wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Ross wrote:
>> Do not login with two simultaneous users. If another user accesses the same
>> account & does not get a recent flag, that proves to me the system is not
>> intended for multiuser login service.
>
> Umm, IMAP is definitely intended for multiple logins.  That's why I use it
> instead of POP.. I can't hose my mailbox if I log in via multiple clients
> simultaneously.

I am not sure what you mean by the second half of that paragraph, 
irrelevant as POP is maybe, but IMAP is a communications protocol 
to maintain sync between client & server, not the key to 
multiuser as I understand IMAP. I am confident IMAP cares not 
about this issue nor possesses control. Especially as it seems 
the system runs not in realtime, but delayed anyway.

The key to multiuser is the client & the server for multiple user 
access that requires sharing & locking & updating. Anotherwords, 
is Pine designed for multiuser as a client, & is the server 
designed for multiuser on the email account?  Is the system 
designed for two separate users to login simultaneously?

I suspect you are logging into one email account two times with 
the same user ID. Try that on any network & typically something 
will go wrong, if the network even allows it to happen at all. 
Secure systems refuse to allow a second login by the same user ID 
that is already logged in. For stability reasons as well as 
security.

If the email account accepts two different user IDs, it is 
multiuser, otherwise it is single user. I am not aware of any 
other designs. If you can get any reliable service from a single 
user system with two logins of the same user ID, I am amazed. The 
system is a race operating on the edge of a cliff. As two 
airplanes cannot land on the same runway at the same time without 
a crash.

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RossARR
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