At 8:48 PM -0400 7/9/02, Scott McDermott wrote: > If server mode is used, you need to have the additional > condition that spools will not be modified randomly (even with locking). > Instead, they can only be appended to
Any spool modification (other than appending new data) that occurs while Qpopper is active is likely to result in corruption. Qpopper only locks the spool during initialization and at termination; in between the spool is unlocked. In server mode, Qpopper assumes that the only change to the spool that can occur during the period is new mail delivery.
