Chris Garrigues <cwg-dated-1026680372(_dot_)be6ae8(_at_)DeepEddy(_dot_)Com>
wrote:
I always call rcvstore with this wrapper:
#!/bin/bash
...
and it would be nice if it weren't needed.
I'm not convinced that it is needed.
The only risk is that your sequences might be corrupted. I prefer
that to the problems caused by stuck locks.
I had some serious mail corruption a year or two ago. It arose because of an
enormous mess of coincidence:
1) I managed to get two copies of fetchmail running at the same time on the
same
mail boxes (fetchmail bug)
2) The POP3 daemon (cucipop) at the other end didn't lock mail boxes
(non-compliant)
3) My procmail recipes didn't implement locking because I assumed nmh did.
4) nmh didn't lock anything, (and I think mh doesn't either).
Lack of locking is a problem that needs to be fixed. I lost a few dozen emails
over a couple of days.
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John Summerfield
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