At 5:42 PM -1000 12/3/01, Robert Brewer wrote: >Unfortunately, users on dialup that receive large attachments or >have particularly noisy phone lines can have quite long POP >sessions, longer than one hour.
That could cause problems with local mail delivery, since the spool would be locked presumably longer than the specified timeout, causing inbound mail to bounce. > Even if the POP sessions are short, if they happen frequently >enough (like every 2 minutes) the odds are that spools will get >corrupted if there is also a long-term UW-IMAP session going. They wouldn't get corrupted if the spool was kept locked. However, either the POP or the IMAP session would get an error and be unable to proceed while the other was active. The point of locking the spool is to prevent simultaneous access. --
