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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > The idea is that *each* delivered piece of mail goes into a separate,
> > new file, so that the accumulated mail for a given addressee is the
> > *set* of files in a designated directory. Is that what you tried and
> > found wanting?
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> My misunderstanding. I thought he was refering to .lock files.
> What MUAs support this mailbox format? We use Elm and POP exclusively.
>
Though I do not have a good understanding of the problem with locks,
perhaps the mail delivery process (procmail?) could trigger a
subsequent process which appended the individual messages into a
"normal" mailbox. It would have to ignore locked messages, and the
process itself would have to lock the "normal" mailbox when it started
(or die otherwise). Alternatively, all your supported MUA's could be
wrapped with a script that did a similar thing.
Kelly Setzer
