I have a question, or maybe I just need some advice. Consider this
situation please:
-There's a user called info. The purpose of the user is to receive
mail that will end up in a shared mailbox that members of a group
info can read and write to.
-Postfix delivers messages to /var/spool/mail/info
Is it safe for several users to be accessing the same mbx mailbox via
different symbolic links pointing to that mailbox? Assume that all users
are doing this with c-client software, or even that all users are using
imapd.
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Please consider 2 situations where messages are moved from spool files
into mbx INBOX files in users home directories:
A. c-client software automatically moves mail when software accesses
incoming spool file.
B. Someone explicitly invokes mailutil appenddelete.
The question is: Can corruption of
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Mark Brand wrote:
Is it safe for several users to be accessing the same mbx mailbox via
different symbolic links pointing to that mailbox?
Yes. However, don't use NFS with mbx format.
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Hi,
I'm writing a headless imap client using c-client on WindowsXP. I have
interfaced to all the mail functions and can successfully read mail
messages from my uw-imap server (linux). Since the mail storage is
handled by another application, with which my client communicates. The
c-client
As a first order approximation:
You should have on record the UIDVALIDITY of the mailbox, highest assigned
UID in the mailbox ever seen by the client, and UIDs of all messages. If
the IMAP server reports a different UIDVALIDITY then what you have, dump
your entire cache; it has been
