Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 23:26:26 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_2_2 Message-ID: <199705150526.XAA00025@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <17811.863652120@time.cdrom.com> References: <199705141817.EAA01334@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> <17811.863652120@time.cdrom.com>
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> > 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? > > We've been over this, and the feeling is that while this dysfunction > is bad, to someone who's on a disconnnected workstation and always > serializes access to the mailbox anyway (fetch mail via POP then read > it with dtmail), it's better than having dtmail simply refuse to > work at all. Umm, so you are basically stating that *unless* you don't have a local delivery agent, or you can guarantee that the delivery will never happen when you're using dtmail it will work. That's should like a pretty typical workstation setup (NOT!). Nate
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