Re: safety of externally appending to a mailbox

2001-04-14 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:03:37PM +, Jim Breton wrote: > 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? Yes, both programs might write at the same time and you end up with crap in the mailbox. > Any obvious

safety of externally appending to a mailbox

2001-04-14 Thread Jim Breton
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(