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On Thu, 15 May 1997, David Nugent wrote:

> I've only got one query.
> 
> What happens when a user loses mail or has his/her mailbox
> trashed when there is a locking collision/race caused by
> dtmail and the local delivery agent using different locking
> methods?
> 
> This is the real problem. Like many, I've been bitten by this
> when simply accessing a mailbox via nfs. It won't happen often,
> but it surely will.

I agree.

We currently serve over 50,000 customers from Houston to Lima, Peru on FreeBSD,
and most of them access Email via NFS.  Procmail has worked very well for us an
I would hate to see it broken.