On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:30:02 -0400, Karl Hoppel wrote:
>I am still
>wondering what happens when both Eudora and Outlook connect at the
>same time - if there will ever be conflicts such as both qpopper processes
>trying to use the same temporary files, hmm?
This isn't any different from the case where you're running qpopper
from inetd on a single port: inetd spawns a new copy of qpopper for
each client, so there can be an arbitrary number of instances running
at one time, and multiple instances may be attempting to access the
same mailbox. At the same time, sendmail or another MTA may be
receiving mail and using procmail or another MDA to store it in
mailboxes. There are locking mechanisms to guard against corruption of
the mailboxes from simultaneous access by multiple programs.
Ken
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