Based on the QMail documentation that does appear to be the case. Each
application can handle locking however it pleases (or not at all.) This
doesn't necessarily mean that it is unusable though. Perhaps it will be
necessary to document potential pitfalls with using MBOX and place the
burden upon the system administrator to choose whether it is really good to
go down that path. Or perhaps just implementing "maildir" will be enough.
The other alternative is to try to understand the locking mechanisms of
several common POP and IMAP applications and implement with them in mind,
but that seems like a very dangerous and time consuming road to travel.
Sincerely,
Anthony Eden
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Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 2:56 PM
To: Java Apache Mail Server
Subject: Re: Suggest a webmail client
Hi,
well, I'm not completely sure about this, but I think MBOX is not completely
"thread-safe". I guess that was the reason for Bernstein to integrate a new
type "Maildir" inside QMail.
You may want to have a look at http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
Bye
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:32:50PM -0500, Serge Knystautas wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Eden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > Serge,
> >
> > I am glad someone finally brought this up. For JAMES to be considered
as
> a
> > real production server MBOX support must be included. It is undoubtedly
> > that organizations will want to use JAMES to replace something like
> sendmail
> > yet use native tools for IMAP or POP support.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Anthony Eden
>
> Anthony,
>
> Thanks very much for the feedback. I wasn't aware this was such a
> compelling issue for some people. Perhaps I'll bump it up in priority,
but
> ultimately someone who actually needs this will be the best person to
> implement this.
>
> I'm not sure how linux handles file locking, but do people think it's
> possible for JAMES and sendmail/qmail to use the same mailbox (file/files
of
> MBOX) simultaneously?
>
> Serge Knystautas
> Loki Technologies
> http://www.lokitech.com/
>
>
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