Re: File locking of mboxrd-format mbox file

2019-06-30 Thread Kurt Hackenberg
On 2019-06-30 01:23, Frank Watt wrote: So does that mean I don't have to be concerned about lock settings when it's only a single user system? No. A single-user system still has multiple processes. You need file locking to use mbox.

Re: File locking of mboxrd-format mbox file

2019-06-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-06-30 17:23, Frank Watt wrote: > Well, yes, I'm more than a bit confused. I've been using procmail but > I've been persuaded that dropmail is to be preferred. Now it makes > sense that it is not fetchmail my question is about. [...] > So does that mean I don't have to be concerned about

Re: File locking of mboxrd-format mbox file

2019-06-30 Thread Frank Watt
Thanks for that clarification. On 30/06/19 10:48 AM, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: On 2019-06-28 23:24, Frank Watt wrote: I'm looking at the getmail documentation... BTW, Is "mbox" the standard abbreviation of Mboxrd or is it something else? Mbox is not a single file format; it's a family of relat