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List:       c-client
Subject:    Re: simultaneous access to incoming spool file by c-client and
From:       Mark Crispin <mrc () CAC ! Washington ! EDU>
Date:       2005-04-14 15:45:34
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.63.0504140844120.21850 () shiva1 ! cac ! washington ! edu
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The simple answer to your question is "no" and "no such measures are 
necessary".

However, make sure that NFS is not involved in accessing the mailbox file 
or the /tmp directory.

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Mark Brand wrote:

> Please consider 2 situations where messages are moved from spool files
> into mbx INBOX files in users home directories:
>
> A. c-client software automatically moves mail when software accesses
> incoming spool file.
> B. Someone explicitly invokes "mailutil appenddelete".
>
> The question is: Can corruption of the incoming spool file arise due to
> conflicts with software (such as postfix) that is delivering mail to the
> spool file? If so, what measures should be taken to prevent this from
> happening?

-- Mark --

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