[Pine-info] Filters with multiple copies of pine running

[Ross]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Ryan Barrett wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Ross wrote:

>> Please clarify "running two pines". Do you mean the program 

>> Pine is loaded twice?  For two separate servers - two separate 

>> account INBOXes?



> matt's explanation made sense to me. what's more, i've seen the 

> same behavior as him. in my case, it's two different machines 

> running pine, with configs pointing to the same account and 

> INBOX.


Unless I misunderstand somehow, you are attempting to get two 
separate copies of Pine, whether same machine or two separate 
machines, to access the same email server, same email account 
INBOX, same message(record), basicly at the same time, which is a 
file/record sharing requirement.

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.

I will not ask why you do this, but I would expect the results 
you observe. Sounds goofy you doing this, or even trying to 
access the same email account at the same time from two different 
logins, but you got what you asked for. I warn People not to 
do this with email accounts. One login at a time, do not share 
an email account in anyway.


>> Then: You say "moves messages from one mailing list into 

>> another folder". Do you mean -moves messages from one 

>> folder(like INBOX), on one server, into another folder-, by 

>> means of a mailing list criteria?



> the end result is that there are two copies of the same message 

> in the filter's destination folder. it seems like each pine is 

> filtering its own copy of the incoming message.


Yes, it would do that. That is the result of file sharing your 
way. As long as the message exists in the INBOX it is readable & 
can be processed by any filter or otherwise.

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