Re: Minor annoyance

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff cdepot net>]

On 2003.07.23 14:54, Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> On 2003.07.23 18:03, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>> Alas, not POP3.  The messages in question are being delivered to the 
>> inbox by an autonomous MDA.
> 
> What MDA is this?
> 
> I recall a friend of mine had similar problem when his formail did 
> not use proper mailbox locking (I remember it very vaguely).

The MDA is a homebrew Perl script that uses Email::Simple to access the 
mbox.  This is a Simon Cozens product, so I'm pretty confident that it 
does the right thing. The algorithm is
     for (1..10) {
         return 1 if flock ($fh, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB);
	sleep $_;
     }
     return 0;

Geoffrey

>> On 2003.07.23 08:29, emmanuel ALLAUD wrote:
>>>  --- Geoffrey Leach <geoff@cdepot.net> a écrit : > So,
>>> I'm reading mail.  I've deleted some items and
>>> > I've committed the
>>> > inbox.  New mail arrives. Subject list is refreshed
>>> > and, volia!, the
>>> > deleted items have re-appeared.  I've checked the
>>> > "delete forever" item
>>> > in the preferences.  Is there anything else I can
>>> > do?
>>> 
>>> If this is POP3 box you hqve to check "delete message
>>> after retrieval" in the prefs window (IIRC the name of
>>> the option).