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Re: locking rcvstore?

2002-07-12 13:31:45
From:  Earl Hood <earl(_at_)earlhood(_dot_)com>
Date:  Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:59:12 -0500

It seems that the only real place that locking is needed is
for the .mh_sequences file.  I.e.  The use of locking can be
limited to areas where there is no non-locking method available
to prevent corruption.

Speaking of non-locking methods to prevent corruption, one of the other things 
I'd like to see done (speaking again as someone who's not going to be 
implementing it), is to find a way to support Maildirs as well as the current
MH directories.  (http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html)

Preferably these would be extended compatibly with courier-imap's Maildir++ 
so the same hierarchy of messages could be seen in both places. 
(http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html)  Note that 
courier-imap uses "." a the separator character.  I don't know why he didn't 
bother to specify that.

This might be a useful first step before an imap backend since it would be 
somewhat easier.

Chris

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