On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Clifton Royston wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:24:06PM -0500, Jonathan Cowherd wrote:
> > We have serveral e-mail with things in them that we'd like to pop off at the
> > same time and process the different e-mails concurrently.  When two
> > processes are popping at the same time, I get a busy/lock error message.  I
> > assumed qpopper could do this since other pop servers don't have trouble
> > with it.
> 
> If this is all in support of some kind of script-driven automatic
> processing of certain specific accounts, it might be easier to .forward
> them or procmail them to clone all incoming mail to two different
> mailboxes and then process those mailboxes via independent POP
> sessions.

Agreed.  Either duplicate the mail in the LDA or let the LDA do the basic
sorting for you and sort it into spools for different accounts.  I prefer
the latter but depending on exactly what you're doing, the first might be
better.

Justin

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