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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    RE: maildir handling (was Re: Need for a general purpose databas
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () rikkus ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       1999-07-18 15:50:57
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On 19-Jul-99 Stefan Taferner wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> [...]
>> Here's a description of how to write to Maildir from man 5 maildir:
>> 
>>        The tmp directory is used to ensure reliable delivery,  as
>>        discussed here.
>>  
>>        A program delivers a mail message in six steps.  First, it
>>        chdir()s to the maildir directory.  Second, it stat()s the
>>        name  tmp/time.pid.host,  where time is the number of sec-
>>        onds since the beginning of 1970 GMT, pid is the program's
>>        process  ID,  and host is the host name.  
> 
> I do not understand what this is for. 
> Can you please enlighten me?

Which bit don't you understand ?

Cheers,
Rik


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