On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 12:37:45 +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> Not currently. (Actually, systems which require the use
> of different locking mechanisms for different kinds of
> mail folders sound a bit broken to me.)
Why broken? Do you mean that NFS is broken?
It seems logical to use a faster (and sufficient) locking mechanism
for the mailboxes I only use locally.
> My personal suggestion would be to use maildir folders
This is what I'll do for incoming mailboxes. Russell Hoover told me
that according to procmail.org, procmail now supports the maildir
mailbox format.
> a simple delivery agent by Dave de Simmone (I think) is in the
> contrib/ area of the FTP site. It should even be possible to write
> one in your favorite shell scripting language, or even in perl.
I said I prefer not to use an additional program, because of problems
in the past, but if I can use procmail only, this is OK...
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