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Re: Qmail, mailbox locking and the FSSTND



chudon@ee.mcgill.ca said:
> 
> Also... is it a <ahem> big problem if qmail uses flock to lock the
> mailbox?
> 
You could use procmail or deliver to do the delivery into the user mailbox, 
calling them via qsmhook. Changing the default line in conf-unusual.h lets you 
do that. The advantage is that you get both dot-locking and delivery into 
mailboxes in /var/spool/mail, so all clients, including pop servers, keep 
working. Users who want to use maildir have to use .qmail* files anyway, so 
the loss compared to the default configuration of qmail seems tolerable. Until 
there are enough qmail-savvy clients around, this looks like a reasonable 
compromise to me.

			Cheers,
				Lukas
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