Marc Knoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Is it possible for more than one client to access the same mailbox via
> IMAP? If so, are there any risks involved?
>
> Would there be a higher chance of corruption if, say, user #1 moved a
> message to another folder while user #2 tried to access the same message at
> roughly the same time?
This would be entirely dependent on the IMAP server software involved.
A design using Maildirs would almost certainly not result in corruption,
although you could still have problems with race conditions:
-user one retrieves a list of messages in one folder
-user two retrieves same list
-user one moves message "Foo" to another folder
-user two attempts to retrive message "Foo" from the folder
> And finally, if there were risks involved, is there any way to limit access
> so that only one person could access a mailbox at any point in time?
The IMAP server could lock the mailbox when a person logs in, as many POP3
servers do. I'm not sure if the common IMAP servers do this.
Charles
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