Torgeir,

> Am I right in the following assumption?
> 
> set up two or more pop3 accounts in mozilla latest nightly; 
> 
> make both point to the local mail store for mailboxes; 
> 
> try to download by selecting "get mail from all accounts"; 
> 
> now since the mbox files are written to by two or more processes
> simultaneously, some mail might be lost since there is no mutexes that
> protects mbox file write access. 
> 
> am I right?


right, we don't have file locking so if you do that you're asking for 
trouble.

see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12850

-Seth




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