Clifton - Thanks for the reply and for your effort sealing the seams between these two applications.
And I apologize for not sending my original message to the list. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clifton Royston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christopher Crowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 4:42 PM Subject: Re: c-client & Qpopper coexist? WAS: Re: Suggestion for a new and enhanced "server mode" > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:34:18PM -0500, Christopher Crowley wrote: > > > > > > For Qpopper to be able to work as it does now, for systems using just > > > mbox format, but also be able to work as you describe, then its present > > > mailbox I/O would need to be abstracted to a separate mailbox interface > > > I/O layer, somewhat along the lines of the UW-imapd "c-client" code. > > > (I don't personally like the UW code style, but there are clean ways to > > > implement the same goal.) > > > > I have a perennial problem because our mail system uses both Qpopper and > > UW-IMAP. User's mail files become corrupted when they check with both > > simultaneously. I have to fix it by hand. > > I feel your pain. > > > We use mbox format. The drives which house the mail are locally attached > > storage on the mail server. > > > > I think that the last time this was discussed there were some allusions to a > > possible patch. > > > > Has anyone successfully modified either application to allow it to use the > > same locking mechanism as the other? > > I'm running with a patch that does this, and trying to find time to get > it cleaned up for submission. It does work in practice, but I am not > sure about the maintainability, and I have to rewrite the low-level > locking routine because I don't think it's portable to anything but a > BSD-style UNIX (uses O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_EXLOCK on open.) > > Once it is cleaned up, I will submit it. I'm sorry for all the > delays. > > -- Clifton > > -- > Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "What do we need to make our world come alive? > What does it take to make us sing? > While we're waiting for the next one to arrive..." - Sisters of Mercy >
