On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:00:09AM -0400, Rudy Zung wrote:
[snip]
> I changed the link() in qmail-local.c to rename() and my mail delivery
> now works. Anyone want to put in some input as to whether a rename() would
> fail in some cases where a link() might not?
Using rename() instead of link() takes away the reliability of
Maildir. If for some reason, two processes generate the same filename for
a message, no matter within what timespan, you lose the first of these
two.
Greetz, Peter
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