Clifton Royston wrote:
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:07:13PM +0300, Spiros Ioannou wrote:
The patch keeps the spool lock active while the mail is in the temp. New
Because if a user is constantly checking mail, the end result could
be that mail backs up in the MTA's queue, and/or that mail to their
account starts bouncing. (The exact behavior will be highly
MTA-dependent.)
-- Clifton
Having a large queue is much preferable than having corrupt mailboxes
due to hard quotas and having to delete mail by hand for the users from
their tempdrop.
As for the mail bouncing, if a system has some bad MTA/LDA, a lot of
mail would bounce anyway, since the spool gets locked anyway with the
current implementation (for less time though). The mail should stay on
queue.
-Spiros
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Image Video & Multimedia Systems Lab.
Department of Electrical & Computer Eng.
National Technical University of Athens
http://www.image.ece.ntua.gr
