Re: [mutt-1.2] Broken world-writable /var/mail detection!

[Thomas Roessler]

On 2000-05-10 10:59:10 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> I thought it was reliable. I've been using the dotlock
> method (only) for years and AFAIK, I've never had any
> mailbox corruption when it was enabled.

Maybe certain caching mechanisms are disabled where you
use mutt.  However, we have had reports about substantial
mail loss which were related to locking problems and NFS
caching.  You really want to invalidate caches, which
can't be done by dotlocking files.

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