Re: POP3 locking

1999-10-06 Thread Peeter Pirn
Thanks for the suggestion! The following works great on my server: tcpserver -c 70 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mailsrv.fwi.com \ /bin/checkpassword /usr/contrib/bin/setlock -nx Maildir/.poplock \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir The second and subsequent concurrent POP3

POP3 locking

1999-10-05 Thread eln
I'm looking to put a locking scheme in the current default pop3 process for qmail (checkpassword, qmail-pop3d) so that when a user checks their mail, if they attempt to check it again while the previous instance is still running, they will be immediately dropped. This is to avoid a potential

Re: POP3 locking

1999-10-05 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 01:40:07PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone implemented such a thing already? If not, any ideas on how it might be done? As I understand it, locking the maildir in qmail-pop3d is probably the best solution to this, as it gets called immediately after