Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:57:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961029235729.16312E-100000@quagmire.ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199610300240.NAA24396@suburbia.net>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Julian Assange wrote: > [...] > > 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? Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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