On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 13:54 -0800, Mark Hedges wrote: > How does IMAP lock the /var/spool/mail/user file?
mbox_read_locks and mbox_write_locks defines it. > Here's my problem: I'm writing a script to expire old or > oversize mail through a series of archive folders. I don't > want to take the whole server down to do this, nor does it > seem like I would have to lock the user out entirely if I > can manage to emulate the locks correctly. How about doing it via IMAP? Then you wouldn't need to worry about locking or anything else. 1 select mailbox 2 search before 01-jun-2006 3 store <those messages> +flags.silent \deleted 4 expunge
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