Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:22:00 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_2_2 Message-ID: <17811.863652120@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 May 1997 04:17:12 %2B1000." <199705141817.EAA01334@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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> 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? We've been over this, and the feeling is that while this dysfunction is bad, to someone who's on a disconnnected workstation and always serializes access to the mailbox anyway (fetch mail via POP then read it with dtmail), it's better than having dtmail simply refuse to work at all. > 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. Anyone who accesses a mailbox via NFS is living on the ragged edge anyway. ;-) Jordan
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