Re: Minor annoyance

[Geoffrey Leach <leach san-jose nptest com>]

On 2003.07.24 00:28, Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> On 07/24/2003 12:18:05 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>> 
>> 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;
> 
> And you do not access the mailbox over NFS or similar network file 
> system, do you? (flock does not work over NFS).

Nope.