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Quit Mail.app remotely in a nice manner
I'm confused. I thought that a major point of IMAP was that it would allow more than one connection at a time. How does mail.app complain about this?
Quit Mail.app remotely in a nice manner
Actually, it's mostly pine that complains. It says something about failing to get a mailbox lock and keeps having to re-open the connection.
Quit Mail.app remotely in a nice manner
The point of IMAP is really to be able to store information in a central location and access it from multiple locations. My sense about whether or not you can access that central store from more than one place simultaneously has more to do with the client applications that you're running than it does IMAP. My situation is similar to the original poster's in that I use Mail.app when I'm at home, but I use Ximian Evolution at work when I'm in the office and pine when I'm out in the field for work. Of the three mail applications, only Mail.app seems to tolerate simultaneous IMAP connections. Evolution can be sketchy at times, and I just get in the habit of restarting pine on a regular basis because the inbox becomes read only and then I don't see any new mail that comes in. There is apparently a certain amount of file locking that takes place with IMAP connections. I used pine pretty exclusively for a while at work until we implemented phpGroupWare. We have phpGroupWare configured to use IMAP for authentication and, whenever I would log into phpGroupWare (or possibly do anything) my pine session would become read only. I still have similar problems with Evolution, but I can simply force a mail check and everything is OK. I don't have any issues using Mail.app and phpGroupWare simultaneously. ---
Quit Mail.app remotely in a nice manner
It depends on the IMAP server in use. Some can handle multiple simultaneous accesses and others can't. Notably, UW-IMAPd does not deal well with it, while Courier does. |
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