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Date:      Sun, 1 Mar 1998 08:18:57 -0500
From:      "Evan Champion" <evanc@synapse.net>
To:        "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br>
Cc:        <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br>, <viren@rstcorp.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 2.2.6 for NFS server
Message-ID:  <001d01bd4514$97b25070$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net>

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>What exactly is "maildirs" ?  Is it a form of dot locking ?  Does
>procmail supports it ?  I've recently changed my local mail deliverer
>to procmail.  And do not feel tempted to change smtpd/sendmail/procmail
>for qmail in the near future.


A maildir is a mailbox structure that does not require _any_ locking
(including dot locking).  AFAIK, qmail is the only MTA that can write to a
maildir.

See <ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto/maildir.html>; for more info.

Evan



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