From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 29 20:58:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA28409 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:58:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA28403 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:58:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by quagmire.ki.net (8.8.2/8.7.5) with SMTP id XAA16507; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:57:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:57:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Julian Assange cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) In-Reply-To: <199610300240.NAA24396@suburbia.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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