On Thursday, May 26, 2005 @ 2:50:41 PM [-0700], Gary wrote:

T>> I'm so glad I have a Technical Heavyweight on my side. Why couldn't I have
T>> thought of something like that to say :)

> :) ........ what I forgot to say .. .. what that means is that the majority
> of IMAP servers, using Maildir style mail format, does not require any
> locking of the spool when it is accessed, as there is no spool, nor folder
> locking, etc. To my knowledge, TB! uses, or used to use, a locking mechanism
> as it does when using POP3, which is on a spool, and stored locally.

Correct. My mail server uses Courier with Maildir...no locking is
necessary.

-- 
Matt


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