On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Marc Hartstein <marc.hartst...@alum.vassar.edu> wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:10:23AM -0700, William Morgan wrote: >> I think the collisions we are seeing are due to timestamp granularity. >> A little research suggests that e.g. ext2fs ctimes are 1-second >> granular. It seems quite easy to get more than one email per second. > > It does, but as I mentioned somewhere in that email, the reference > implementation of maildir (qmail) says that it will only deliver one > message per second. However, I definitely concede that relying on this > behavior would be setting things up for something to go wrong down the > line.
Just a data point: in my setup (postfix+procmail) I'm seeing multiple messages being delivered to the same maildir in the same second. That was what motivated my patch. _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk