[imp] pine locks

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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Rich Lafferty wrote:
=>> 
=>>Yes, they are on the same machine. But I guess you guys here know
=>>alot about IMAP! ;-)
=>
=>Maybe in your installation they are, but there's no reason for them to
=>have to be that way. IMP does not have to run on the machine on which
=>the mail is stored, so you won't see any modifications to IMP which
=>require otherwise.


I would configure, pine via its pinerc.fixed to run in IMAP
mode.  Do not let it access mail folders via local disk access.  Then
your locking issue is totally internal to your IMAP server.