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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:46:06 +0000 (BST)
From:      Scot Elliott <scot@london.virgin.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mail server setup
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.05.9903051138360.5879-100000@sulu>
In-Reply-To: <36DFC157.D20AA061@eclipse.net.uk>

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Exim seems to use quite a reliable mailbox locking technique (similar to
that of Pine):

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-2.10/doc/html/spec_15.html#IDX967


Scot.

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Stuart Henderson wrote:

> > I seem to remember procmail claiming to deliver reliably 
> > over NFS.  I don't know whether that  reliability extends 
> > to safe interaction with whatever pop server is in use.
> 
> >From the cucipop features file:
> 
>    + Is the only popd to perform reliable mailbox locking across
>      NFS as well (it uses the same excellent and proven locking
>      algorithms as does procmail)
> 
> -- 
>   Stuart Henderson
>   Network Engineer, Eclipse Networking Ltd.
> 
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