Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:06:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Cc: proff@suburbia.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) Message-ID: <199610302306.QAA24194@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961029235729.16312E-100000@quagmire.ki.net> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Oct 29, 96 11:57:55 pm
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> > > So in conclusion: > > > > > > 1) There should be an fcntl() awar "driver" to go with the flock() > > > aware "driver", since this is the best approach to locaking > > > on FreeBSD (and NetBSD and OpenBSD, etc.). > > > 2) There needs to be a subset interface for non-MIME-aware > > > mail transport agents (which only care about the encapsulated > > > message, not how to break out contents other than addressing > > > tags, which are seperate anyway, by definition). > > > 3) Sendmail (out "mail.local") should use the subset interface. > > > > > > > > > A tall order, unfortunately. 8-(. > > > > Or we could just make procmail the default mail store agent ;) > > > > How does that fix the problem with IMAP4 under FreeBSD? It redefines ".lock" locking as "correct for FreeBSD because the default Mail Transport Agent uses it". 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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