Change default MTA was Re: Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Wed Dec 10 23:43:55 UTC 2003


On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Ronny Buchmann wrote:

> If MDA and MUA try to access it at the same time, you run into problems when 
> they don't agree on a locking scheme or when using NFS.
> 
> Maildirs don't need locking.

Not true. That's why what passes for the Maildir standard was revised 
earlier this year, after people found out the hard way that the "locking 
not needed" hype was losing their email....

later,
chris





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