Re: smtpd vs. uw-imap locking

2017-07-31 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 07:47:15PM -0400, gwes wrote: > smtpd locks user mailboxes in /var/mail using lockspool(1) > uw-imapd locks using its own dotfile locker mlock(not the syscall) > Actually, it is mail.local that does the locking, smtpd knows nothing at all regarding /var/mail as it is an

smtpd vs. uw-imap locking

2017-07-30 Thread gwes
smtpd locks user mailboxes in /var/mail using lockspool(1) uw-imapd locks using its own dotfile locker mlock(not the syscall) Before I go into uw-imapd and do some nasty additions and if()s: does anyone else care? does anyone else use uw-imap? has anyone attacked this problem? is there anywhere