Alex Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is he seriously contending that with such a rapid flurry of mail coming
> through the pipe, that it would be safer to append mails to open files,
> possibly concurrently?
As near as I can tell, he's arguing for some other, different type of file
format that he calls mbx. I'm not sure the differences.
> I'm no genius but it seems to me that if a Mailbox is open and you are
> writing to it, and another process is also writing to it, that that is
> when problems could occur.
Locking.
> Isn't that the kind of thing that makes Maildirs so great?
Maildirs don't need locking. Historically, this is a really good thing,
since locking is quite frequently a zoo. Practically, if you're in
complete control of every process that writes to the mailbox and it's
stored on local disk (which is true of the typical IMAP server), locking
works fine.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
