>I suppose that depends on the meaning of the word ``deliver'' and also >whether or not the refile command is moving message 42 from the same >filesystem, or crossing filesystem boundaries. In the former case, it's >an atomic operation, but in the latter case, to retain the ``crash >proof'' nature of Maildir, it would seem that one should ``deliver'' the >message first into Maildir/tmp, followed by an atomic move into either >Maildir/new or Maildir/cur.
I didn't really get into the details, but absolutely, any nmh Maildir implementation would certainly have to make sure the move into "cur" was atomic; obviously if it was the same filesystem rename() would work, but otherwise a copy into tmp first is the way to go. --Ken -- Nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
