On 15 September 1999, Philip Guenther <guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu> wrote:
Karthik <n6026002(_at_)cc(_dot_)iitb(_dot_)ernet(_dot_)in> writes:
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Philip Guenther wrote:
Karthik <n6026002(_at_)cc(_dot_)iitb(_dot_)ernet(_dot_)in> writes:
If I use lockfile to lock my system mailbox (which is
$HOME/Mailbox) then will qmail take note of it and queue up
deliveries?
Have you checked the qmail docs?
Yes i have. It says that qmail uses flock() to lock files when
writing to them. I don't really know what that means which is why I
posted.
[...]
Please note that this only apply to mbox emulation in QMail
(whatever it's called), not to Maildir mailboxes (which is the default
mailbox format with QMail). Maildir mailboxes _don't_ need any kind of
locking.
That is what I am doing right now but with my fingers crossed. The
problem is that I use qmail, procmail and mutt (which is my usual
mail agent) and I don't know how each one of them handles locking.
You'll need to find out how mutt does locking.
[...]
This can be configured at compile time. Use "mutt -v" to find out
the compiled-in methods. Independently of this however, Mutt will never
lock a Maildir folder.
Regards,
Liviu Daia
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