Thomas writes:
| However, you may wish to notice that there is still a
| problem with message flags. From the mh point of view (as
| far as I understand it), these flags should be stored in
| the .mh_sequences file - which is in paricular true for
| the unseen sequence. However, there doesn't seem to be a
| well-defined locking mechanism for that file, which means
| that we can't update it safely. Ups.
Yes, mh has a problem with that. The simple solution is just to avoid
any form of concurrent access to folders. If you only use mh commands
from the shell (i.e. no rcvstore), that's the case. Mutt can't be
faulted by mh users for doing what mh does in similar circumstances;
conversely, you shouldn't make it worse by ignoring mh_sequences
altogether.
I know all about the advantages of maildirs (being a qmail early
adopter), but that's not the point.
