If I have a process which writes to a mailbox which Mutt already has
open, is there any reason for this to be considered unsafe?
For example I have some 'fetchpop' processes that write to several
mailboxes; if I have one of them open Mutt doesn't appear to have any
problem seeing the new message(s). I have never had any issues with
this but I want to make sure there's no special way the append has to be
done in order to do it cleanly.
I ask because currently I have a hole poked into a firewall to allow
smtp to come in from the upstream mail exchanger; I was considering a
different approach which would let me close that smtp port: scp the
remote file to a temporary name on the local box, then cat it >> to the
"real" mailbox file.
Any obvious problems with that approach?
Thanks.
