On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 01:20:51PM -0500, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> > Yeah, looked into this for a minute, and determined it's atrocious.
> > Should lead to mail store corruption unless you're only using maildir.
> > The fact that Mutt isn't multithreaded is not interesting; the fact
> > that multiple processes (e.g. your MDA) may read and write the mail
> > store files simultaneously IS.  Locking is important, and this patch
> > is misguided.
> 
> Reading the manpages, it seems that these are about not using a
> process-level mutex lock, not file-level locking mechanisms.

Hmm...  Seems you are right.  My bad, I did not read carefully enough.

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