Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:11:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) Cc: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, current@FreeBSD.org, scrappy@ki.net Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) Message-ID: <199610292311.QAA22180@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <MailManager.846626367.13515.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> from "Mark Crispin" at Oct 29, 96 01:59:27 pm
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> You still don't understand. > > Your "mail.local" is not the only mail delivery program, nor is it typical of > mail delivery programs on UNIX. Most mail delivery programs use .lock files. Actually, I would think that if it didn't go through mail.local, then it isn't in a local user's mailbox: it's still in the delivery queue for sendmail/smail/mmdf/IMAP/etc. I think the only legal access to the local user's mailbox is via mail.local (incoming) and POP3/IMAP4/ELM/other-mail-reader (content browsing and manipulation). That basically means that the storage type is abstracted from the act of transport for most purposes, and *should* be abstracted from the act of reference. There is a MIME library, but licensing restrictions make it practically useless. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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