Re: Question about prohibition against multiple clients

[Richard Cobbe <cobbe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:

> Yes, that is safe.  The prohibition is to running more than one copy of
> OfflineIMAP on the same account on the same client machine simultaneously.
> OfflineIMAP will usually detect this condition automatically and abort, but
> there are some situations (/home mounted of NFS, perhaps) where it may not
> be able to detect that.  Basically, you don't want two OfflineIMAPs writing
> to ~/.offlineimap/ simultaneously, or two OfflineIMAPs working over the same
> Maildir.

Ok.  That's what I thought, but I'm glad you confirmed that.

> I routinely have numerous machines running OfflineIMAP all syncing to the
> same IMAP server account.

Great!  Just what I wanted to hear.

Thanks a bunch,

Richard