Hi Sergey, On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 06:10:14PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > > In response to a Debian bug report, I'm looking at why imap4d isn't > > locking the user's mailbox when it initiates a session. > It does not need to. To be precise, it does lock it, but only when > it really needs to modify it. Normally, the locking interval is very > short, so you have little chance to detect the lock file presence. In > fact, one of the huge advantages of IMAP protocol over POP is that the > former does not require mailbox locking through the session.
I see. The bug report I'm talking about is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350754, reported against 0.6.1. What you said above dismantles my theory though, so I don't know if if was a bug fixed somewhere between 0.6.1 and 1.0. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/
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