> From: Hal DeVore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 07:25:03 -0600
>
> Most people (?) who use procmail do NOT deliver all their mail into a
> single folder. That, of course, means that we're not talking about ONE
> unseen sequence that is being hit from all sides but rather some number of
> sequences.
>
> The fact that we're talking about multiple separate sequence files reduces
> the risk and reduces the cost of loss. In order for a specific sequence
> file to become corrupted it's necessary for mail to be delivered into that
> folder at the same time as one is altering the sequences in it (more on
> that in a moment). This is less likely to occur than the same event with
> a single folder and a single sequence. And the cost is less because loss
> would only affect that one folder. However, as you stated, use of sequence
> s
> to contain important information may increase your "cost".
Where I got hit bad enough to need to put locking around rcvstore was when I
set up a qmail alias which called an undigestify script which then resubmitted
the individual messages back into qmail to a different alias. The unseen
sequence for the mailbox on that alias got terribly trashed every time.
(Also, my system noticeably slows when this happens.)
Chris
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