Sam --

...and then Samuel Padgett said...
% Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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% > that you'll never again fall prey to a corrupted mailbox due to
% > a delivery occurring at the wrong time.
% 
% But shouldn't well-behaved MTAs and MUAs perform locking that
% prevents this from happening?

Yes, they should, but 

  - that doesn't always work over NFS
  - that doesn't always work with filesystem tools (eg cat)
  - there's probably at least one more example, too


% 
% Sam


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