On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 12:07 -0700, Mark Costlow wrote: > > Switch to Maildir and the problem goes away. The issue is that the mbox > > file is read-locked when the first message is read. And since the POP3 > > client most likely just keeps reading messages for the entire session, > > the mbox file kept read-locked all the time. Can't really be fixed > > without some larger redesign (which is really not worth it). > > Point taken. > > Does this mean that pop3_lock_session is a NO-OP? Or does it have > other implications?
It write-locks the mailbox, so two POP3 sessions can't access it at the same time.
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