Re: Movemail then move back was Re: [Evolution] Movemail, why?

[Michael Wood <wood kingsley co za>]

Hi

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 02:33:35PM -0500, Matt Knopp wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:50:31AM -0700, Hassan Aurag wrote:
> > Then please move it back once done with it. In other words
> > fake imap even on systems without imap! This shouldn't be a
> > problem since those files are local even though they might
> > be coming from nfs.
>
> I don't have any clue what you mean by "fake imap".  As for
> moving it back, guess what... you get all the same problems
> back again. You have to deal with locking the spool, because
> while you "moved" the file off into mailreader land new mail
> can have arrived. So now at somepoint to move it back you have
> to: (a) lock the spool. (b) incorperate the spool into your
> copy of the spool in some sesiable way. (c) put your "newer
> new spool" in place. (d) unlock the file so that the MTA can
> then add any mail that has arrived while you were
> incorperating the "new to you, but old to the mta mail". 

Indeed, BUT, you have to (or "movemail" has to) lock the mail
spool when you move it out in the first place, so if you can do
it once, why not twice?  I'm not saying it should be done, but
your argument that you can't lock it the second time doesn't
make much sense to me.

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