* On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 06:21AM +0800 Wu, Yue (vano...@gmail.com) muttered: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:11:46PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: > > Removing empty mbox/mmdf files on the contrary is atomic and can be > > safely done by mutt. > > What about mbox? I have set up fetchmail and procmail fetch mails via cron, so > if I'm operating on mbox like deleting/modifying some mails in mutt, and if > new mails comes now, would some unsafe evens e.g. lost mails happen?
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