Re: are you using /var/mail?
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Stuart Anderson wrote:
> Ideally, from an ABI perspective, applications wouldn't need to know the
> path at all. They would have an API in a shared library to use to access
> and manipulate the mail folders.
Well, somewhere there needs to be a fairly stable interface. Whether
that's a shared library or a name and fileformat in the filesystem
doesn't matter all that much, although a shared library gives you more
flexibility in how you store the underlying data.
> I haven't looked closely, but I think that the c-client library comes
> close to doing this.
I've heard tell that the c-client library is grossly inefficient.
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product. The devil is real. He lives inside C programs. -- philg@mit.edu
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