[exim] Re: locking et al.

2024-02-05 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-users
On Mon, 5 Feb 2024, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote: On 2/5/24 15:01, graeme vetterlein via Exim-users wrote: But it occurs to me I'm rather "living on the edge" here I have multiple cronjobs an I guess with a single edit I could end up with multiple writers. So I guess I need to ensure mai

[exim] Re: locking et al.

2024-02-05 Thread Jeremy Harris via Exim-users
On 2/5/24 15:01, graeme vetterlein via Exim-users wrote: But it occurs to me I'm rather "living on the edge" here I have multiple cronjobs an I guess with a single edit I could end up with multiple writers. So I guess I need to ensure maildrop and exim4 share a single view of locking . Exim's

[exim] Re: locking et al.

2024-02-05 Thread Evgeniy Berdnikov via Exim-users
On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 03:01:03PM +, graeme vetterlein via Exim-users wrote: > BTW this came to my attention while debugging a maildrop setup I noted it > using flock(2) I also note it can use dot-lock files. Now fetchmail, > maildrop, exmim4, procmail etc all work together in many combinatio

[exim] locking et al.

2024-02-05 Thread graeme vetterlein via Exim-users
Hi all, I get my mail via *fetchmail*(1), which then invokes some convoluted rules in *maildrop*(1) ... eventually maildrop usually passed the mail to *sendmail*(1) (AKA *exim4*) *or writes it into a mailbox.* * * Now, to some extent, I'm in a simplified position as maildrop runs sequentia