I originally ran across this on a vendor supplied build (redhat 7.2) and verified it again using Fedora Core 2 and imap-2004a. I apologize if this was previously covered; however, I am bringing it up since it doesn't appear to be explicitly mentioned in docs/formats.txt
When using the unix format mailbox only one process can have read/write (select) access. This is documented, and any previous connections are dropped. However, my concern is when using examine (read only) on a mailbox and another connection uses select. Examine appears to be completely oblivious to any actions performed on the mailbox by the other process. Specifically, an expunge really throws things out of whack where subsequent text fetches on the "examined" view returns incorrect data which seemingly correspond to the original view offsets when first opened rather than the current updated mailbox (post-expunge).
Thanks,
-nick
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