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Date:      Thu, 15 May 1997 04:17:12 +1000
From:      David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        current@freeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_2_2 
Message-ID:  <199705141817.EAA01334@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 May 1997 01:01:26 MST." <7493.863510486@time.cdrom.com> 

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>  in this release and Thomas Roell cannot fix this "correctly" in the
>  time-span available to him, so the only option is for me to create a
>  variant of 2.2.x which has this change in it.  Now, I ask you frankly,
>  which option do you think will create the least confusion?

I've only got one query.

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?

This is the real problem. Like many, I've been bitten by this
when simply accessing a mailbox via nfs. It won't happen often,
but it surely will.

If dtmail is to be catered for, then we also need to resolve/fix
our own source tree to handle whatever dtmail expects. If it is
already compatible (and by the sound of it, it isn't), then I
didn't post this. :-)

Regards,
David





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