On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Hrmmm, so does this still represent a problem? For example, a user who uses imap (which if I understand right is still imap) logs into pine to be more able to use pine's better search features select and purge their spam files...but the user forgets to kill outlook in the process.
In case I wasn't clear, the "kiss of death" feature that kills old sessions when a new session is started is only for the NON-NFS case. There is no KOD with NFS; you have to play spin-the-roulette-wheel.
However, Pine access to an NFS file is far less likely to have a bad roulette consequence than Outlook. This is because Outlook itself spins the roulette wheel by spawning multiple sessions at once. Pine does not do so.
This may not actually BE a NFS issue at all (and if it's not I apologize for gettng off-topic with regard to the current) -- but does the above scenario propose a risk toward mailbox corruption when done either a) on a single box and b) on an NFS box, as above?
There is always a risk with NFS access. As soon as you involve IMAP clients that tend to spawn multiple sessions, the risk is greatly magnified.
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