symbolic links to mailboxes and locking
Is it safe for several users to be accessing the same mbx mailbox via different symbolic links pointing to that mailbox? Assume that all users are doing this with c-client software, or even that all users are using imapd. -- -- For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/c-client-list.html --
Re: symbolic links to mailboxes and locking
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Mark Brand wrote: Is it safe for several users to be accessing the same mbx mailbox via different symbolic links pointing to that mailbox? Yes. However, don't use NFS with mbx format. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.