On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:33:47PM -0500, Tim Olson wrote:
> Ok, so a dumb question to the servermode thread....
>
> Would using "cat" or "cp" (copy) on a spool file while someone
> POP's in cause any problems? We have a couple of people who we
> make scripts for that automatically back up their spool files
> on a schedule, and sometimes we use cat to scan for keywords
> in known virus emails. I wouldn't want to start enabling
> servermode and then find out that cp or cat interfere.
> Any idea if they do?
Oh, anything that doesn't *write* to the spool file should be just
fine. It's just having two processes decide to write it at the same
time that is bad, and that's why I'm concerned about imapd.
-- Clifton
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