On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
[...] > I think we need to write two libraries: > > 1) libnfslock (or whatever) > > 2) libmailaccess (or whatever) > > libmailaccess should be something like PAM for mail delivery, providing > access > to a user's mailbox by use of either Maildir, or dot-locking (via libnfslock > say), or whatever other method --- as selected by the user. The following comments from /usr/doc/fetchmail/NOTES.gz may possibly be useful here: + [...] + Why mess with all the complexity of configuring an MDA or setting up + lock-and-append on a mailbox when port 25 is guaranteed to be there on + any platform with TCP/IP support in the first place? Especially when + this means retrieved mail is guaranteed to look like normal sender- + initiated SMTP mail, which is really what we want anyway. + [...] + no more grovelling + around for the system MDA and user's mailbox, no more worries about + whether the underlying OS supports file locking. + + Also, the only way to lose mail vanished. If you specified localfolder + and the disk got full, your mail got lost. This can't happen with + SMTP forwarding because your SMTP listener won't return OK unless + the message can be spooled or processed. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .