Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 23:16:26 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_2_2 Message-ID: <199705150516.XAA29987@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <17931.863652798@time.cdrom.com> References: <199705142055.OAA28492@rocky.mt.sri.com> <17931.863652798@time.cdrom.com>
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> > Mail locking, as already been said *many* times. However, depending on > > usage, it may not bite anyone, or then again it might. It's kind of > > like serving your mail spool over NFS, most of the time it works, but > > sometimes it totally corrupts your mbox. > > But... This changes *nothing* with mail locking in existing tools > and, as you've stated several times, you don't really care about > dtmail so its own [dys]function is not apropos! You don't consider corrupting mbox as a bad bug? Either fix dtmail correctly, or not at all. Making it 'run' but corrupt email is worse than not running at all. "Gee, let's use FreeBSD/CDE, so we can lose email by design." Nate
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